The sexual life of English : languages of caste and desire in colonial India /
In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra examines how English became an Indian language. She rejects the idea that English was fully formed before its life in India or that it was imposed from without. Rather, by drawing attention to sexuality and power, Chandra argues that the English languag...
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Next wave (Duke University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Learning gender, knowing English: an introduction
- "The prudent and cautious engrafting of English upon our female population": pedagogy and performativity
- "The language of the bedroom": mimicry, masculinity, and the sexual power of English
- "A new generation of hipless and breastless women
- to the forefront in Europe and America": literature, social class, and the wider world of English
- "I shall read pretty English stories to my mother and translate them into Marathi for her": widowhood, virtue, and the secularization of caste
- "Why had I ever begun to learn English?": desire, labor, and the transregional orientation of caste
- Dosebai Jessawalla and the "March of advancement in the face of obloquy"
- Epilogue: "I am an Indian. I have no language" Parvatibai Athavale and the limits to English.
