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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Foreword. Introduction- Divide and Rue: The English Language in India/T. Vijay Kumar. Part I: English in India. 1. English in India: origins and early contact/Parimala Kulkarni. 2. English as the language of administration, knowledge, freedom and modernity/Sachidananda Mohanty. 3. English and the Indian languages debate/K. Narayana Chandran. 4. English writing in India/Shyamala A. Narayan. 5. English literature and Indian literature interface/K. Narayana Chandran. 6. English as a language of livelihood and as an aspirational language/V.B. Tharakeshwar. 7. English medium of instruction at as the school/A. Giridhar Rao. 8. English as alienating language vs. empowering language: student perceptions of English - a case study/Mala Pandurang. 9. English journalism, media and films/Nikhila H. 10. The gender of English in India/Rekha Pappu. 11. English as a first language in India/E. Annamalai. Part II: Other International Languages. 12. The Chinese Language in India/D. P. Pattanayak. 13. The French language in India/Edith Melo Furtado. 14. German in India/Amita Desai. 15. The Japanese language in India/P. A. George. 16. The Japanese language in India: a reflection/Tomo Kawane. 17. Korean in India/Kim Do-young. 18. The Portuguese language in India/Maria do Céu Barreto. 19. Russian in India/J. Prabhakar Rao and Sheetal Anand. 20. Spanish in India/Ranjeeva Ranjan. Appendices. Index. English and Other International Languages (People s Linguistic Survey of India, Volume 37) discusses the status of English and other foreign languages which continue to have a presence in India. While Section I discusses the complex progression of English in the Indian linguistic scene and its increasing acceptance among the people here, Section II describes the status and development of eight other international languages in use in India. The volume also observes how India s engagement with foreign cultures has enriched the multilingual mosaic of the country.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction. I. The nation at home: 1. New perceptions of nationalist politics: reconsidering motherhood/Rumina Sethi. 2. Changing perceptions of the nation in Indian English literature/Shyamala A. Narayan. 3. Imaging homelands: narratives of postcolonial migration in Bengal/Jayita Sengupta. 4. Failure of agency, or the agency of failure: postcolonial modernity in Anantha Murthy's "A Horse for the Sun"/Karni Pal Bhati. 5. Ontological issues in Samskara and The Last Brahmin: a critique/D. Himalayanath. 6. Will the meek inherit? Nation and sub-nations in the novels of Maitreyi Pushpa/Vibha S. Chauhan. 7. Nation narrated in An Epic Unwritten/C.L.L. Jayaprada. 8. Imagining India in English: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Murari Prasad. 9. Trapped in modernity: Neo-Colonial constructions of India in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh/Someshwar Sati. II. The nation abroad: 10. Branding the nation: exporting literature as cultural capital/Sandra Ponzanesi. 11. Nostalgia, duty and desire: home in Indian Diaspora Literature/Geetanjali Singh Chandra. 12. Indias abroad: the Diaspora writes back/Rajendra Chetty. 13. 'Cultural Translation' of Bharata Natyam into 'Contemporary Indian Dance': Second-generation South Asian Americans and cultural politics in Diasporic locations/Ketu H. Katrak. 14. Lost in translation: Deepa Mehta's Earth/Donna Coates. 15. The reverse Bildungsroman as globalization device: the case of The Mistress of Spices/Feroza Jussawalla. 16. Salman Rushdie's novels: dissolving the familiar cultural boundaries/Amrit Biswas. Contributors. "This volume, a selection of the essays presented at the Thirteenth Triennial Conference of ACLALS held in Hyderabad in 2004, examines some of the defining aspects of Indian Culture and its literary manifestations. The emancipatory appeal of belonging to a nation in this era of globalization, the varied discourses on the history and social dynamics of India and their impact on Indian people, the Diasporic literature of the writers of Indian Diaspora, and the complex mindsets of postcolonial and neocolonial subjectivities are some of the many issues interrogated in this study." (jacket).…