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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:31:54
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Keywords for India: Bhaya Nair, deSouza (eds.)

 


Title: Keywords for India 
Subtitle: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/keywords-for-india-9781350039230/ 


Editor: Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Editor: Peter Ronald deSouza

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350039254 Pages: 488 Price: U.K. £ 22.49 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350039278 Pages: 488 Price: U.K. £ 22.49 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350039247 Pages: 488 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781350039230 Pages: 488 Price: U.K. £ 24.99


Abstract:

What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their
meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in
everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key
words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony,
gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these
entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural
unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into
critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies.

Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and
society through the study of keywords, "Keywords for India" brings together
more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic
collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words
enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the
shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking
of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on
offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new
millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, "Keywords
for India" presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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