1st Edition
Writing India, Writing English Literature, Language, Location
By G. J. V. Prasad
Copyright 2011
190 Pages
by
Routledge India
190 Pages
by
Routledge India
190 Pages
by
Routledge India
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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... Read more
Preface Part I: India, English, Translation 1. A Minute Stretching into Centuries: Macaulay, English and India 2. Translating Dalit Tamil Literature into English 3. Tamil, Hindi, English: A New Ménage à Trois 4. Trans-creating India(s): The Nation in English Translation 5. Karnad, Tughlaq, India Part II: Indian English Literature and the Nation 6. Writing India Writing English 7. Romance in the West: Toru Dutt the Novelist 8. ‘Food for Thought’: The Tamil World of R. K. Narayan 9. Always in the Poet’s Eye: Nissim Ezekiel’s India 10. India in Verse: The Indian English Nation 11. Terrifying Tara: The Angst of the Family. Bibliography. About the Author. Index
Biography
G. J. V. Prasad is Professor of English at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
