Sayan Chattopadhyay

Being English

Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicisation

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780367408589
• ISBN-10: 0367408589
• Artikelnr.: 62634859

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.