Writing India, writing English :
Prasad, G. J. V.
Writing India, writing English : literature, language, location / G.J.V. Prasad. - London ; New Delhi ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2011. - xii, 176 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-170) and index.
The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer's location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama.
9780415693790
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2012-335169
Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.
PR9484.3 / .P73 2011
0820.9954 / PRA
Writing India, writing English : literature, language, location / G.J.V. Prasad. - London ; New Delhi ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2011. - xii, 176 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-170) and index.
The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer's location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama.
9780415693790
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2012-335169
Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.
PR9484.3 / .P73 2011
0820.9954 / PRA