This book offers new insights into the debates of vernacularity, language ideologies, and the decolonial turn. It identifies â vernacular encountersâ as nuanced interactions of languages that are often termed as â localâ with culture and power. It will be useful to researchers of language, linguistics, and literary and cultural studies.
This book offers new insights into the debates of vernacularity, language ideologies, and the decolonial turn. It identifies â vernacular encountersâ as nuanced interactions of languages that are often termed as â localâ with culture and power. It will be useful to researchers of language, linguistics, and literary and cultural studies.
Nishat Zaidi is Professor of English and former chair at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is currently the Honorary Director of Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women's Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. Kashish Dua is an Assistant Professor of English at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and earned her PhD from the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - The Vernacular as Method: Encounters, Politics, and Possibilities of Decolonial Futures Part I: Language and Identity in Vernacular Contexts 1. The Ghostly Vernacular: Language in Indo-Fijian Poetry 2. Language Ideologies of a Goan Desk Calendar 3. Becoming Assamese: Language, Identity and Anxiety Part II: Vernacular Literatures and Community Narratives 4. Interrogating Colonial Historiography: Traditions of 'Vernacular' and the Case of Sikh Community Periodicals (1890-1910) 5. Rendering Visibility to the Public: Examining Satire and Critique in the Vernacular through the Newspaper Navashakti 6. 'Qaum' and its Complex Genealogies: Perspectives from Urdu Digests in Post-Partition India Part III: Evolution and Contention of Language Cultures 7. Indigenous Voices: An Exploration of Native Translators and Preachers in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills 8. The Colonial and the Vernacular: Three Moments of Encounter 9. Towards a Republic of Vernacular (World) Letters: On How to Planetarize "World Literature" 10. Internet and its Vernacular Encounters: Contested Terrain of Digital Folk Video Culture(s) in India
Introduction - The Vernacular as Method: Encounters, Politics, and Possibilities of Decolonial Futures Part I: Language and Identity in Vernacular Contexts 1. The Ghostly Vernacular: Language in Indo-Fijian Poetry 2. Language Ideologies of a Goan Desk Calendar 3. Becoming Assamese: Language, Identity and Anxiety Part II: Vernacular Literatures and Community Narratives 4. Interrogating Colonial Historiography: Traditions of 'Vernacular' and the Case of Sikh Community Periodicals (1890-1910) 5. Rendering Visibility to the Public: Examining Satire and Critique in the Vernacular through the Newspaper Navashakti 6. 'Qaum' and its Complex Genealogies: Perspectives from Urdu Digests in Post-Partition India Part III: Evolution and Contention of Language Cultures 7. Indigenous Voices: An Exploration of Native Translators and Preachers in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills 8. The Colonial and the Vernacular: Three Moments of Encounter 9. Towards a Republic of Vernacular (World) Letters: On How to Planetarize "World Literature" 10. Internet and its Vernacular Encounters: Contested Terrain of Digital Folk Video Culture(s) in India
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