Chandra The Sexual Life of English

Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9529-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Chandra explores how English became an Indian language during the colonial period of 1850-1930. Using archival and literary sources, she focuses on elite language education for girls and women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chandra, Shefali

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Transliteration and Spelling ix

Part One

1. Learning Gender, Knowing English: An Introduction 3

2. "The Prudent and Cautious Engrafting of English Upon Our Female Population": Pedagogy and Performativity 29

3. "The Language of the Bedroom": Mimicry, Masculinity, and the Sexual Power of English 57

4. "A New Generation of Hipless and Breastless Women. To the Forefront in Europe and America": Literature, Social Class, and the Wider World of English 83

Part Two

5. "I Shall Read Pretty English Stories to My Mother and Translate Them into Marathi for Her": Widowhood, Virtue, and the Secularization of Caste 117

6. "Why Had I Ever Begun to Learn English?": Desire, Labor, and the Transregional Orientation of Caste 137

7. Dosebai Jessawalla and the "March of Advancement in the Face of Obloquy" 157

8. Epilogue: "I Am an Indian. I Have No Language": Parvatibai Athavale and the Limits to English 175

Salaams 191

Notes 195

Bibliography 245

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Shefali Chandra is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, the International and Area Studies Program, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.