{"title":"Spelling Desire in the Coloniser’s Tongue: Locating Multilingual Female Writers in Twentieth-Century India","authors":"Nisha Ghatak","doi":"10.1080/13534645.2022.2156693","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"South Asia manifests a unique socio-linguistic identity that celebrates a paradox of what I call singular pluralities. Within it, India is a democratic country built on multi-ethnicity, multiculturalism, multilingualism, secularism and on a tainted history of colonial rule. In the years that have followed the colonial era, the English language has been embraced by India as her own. According to Ethnologue, India is home to 398 vernacular languages and over a thousand local dialects. Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal further filter these vast numbers into more quantifiable measures to problematise India’s multilingual existence:","PeriodicalId":46204,"journal":{"name":"Parallax","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Parallax","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2022.2156693","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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South Asia manifests a unique socio-linguistic identity that celebrates a paradox of what I call singular pluralities. Within it, India is a democratic country built on multi-ethnicity, multiculturalism, multilingualism, secularism and on a tainted history of colonial rule. In the years that have followed the colonial era, the English language has been embraced by India as her own. According to Ethnologue, India is home to 398 vernacular languages and over a thousand local dialects. Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal further filter these vast numbers into more quantifiable measures to problematise India’s multilingual existence:
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Founded in 1995, parallax has established an international reputation for bringing together outstanding new work in cultural studies, critical theory and philosophy. parallax publishes themed issues that aim to provoke exploratory, interdisciplinary thinking and response. Each issue of parallax provides a forum for a wide spectrum of perspectives on a topical question or concern. parallax will be of interest to those working in cultural studies, critical theory, cultural history, philosophy, gender studies, queer theory, post-colonial theory, English and comparative literature, aesthetics, art history and visual cultures.
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