Being English - Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicisation

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicization of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India.

Sommario

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Contours of Englishness in Colonial India 1. Nineteenth-century Bengal and the Emergence of Indian Middle-Class Anglicization 2 Images of Indian Womanhood and the "English" Self of Cornelia Sorabji 3. The Tradition of National Autobiographies and Nirad Chaudhuri’s Homeward Journey to England 4. Anglicization, Citizenship, and Nirad Chaudhuri’s Critique of the Colonial Metropolis 5. Dom Moraes’s Anglicization and the Ambiguity of Return 6. Coda: Anglicization and Aporia. Bibliography. Index.

Info autore

Sayan Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge in 2014. He was the recipient of the 2010–2013 Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship and was the Baden Württemberg visiting fellow at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg in 2017. His research has been primarily in the area of Indian middle-class self-fashioning and its literary manifestations.

Riassunto

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicization of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sayan Chattopadhyay, Sayan (Assistant Professor Chattopadhyay
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032158822
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215882-2
• Pagine: 162
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Society and culture: general, Regional Geography, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature