Francesca Orsini (249 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Print and Pleasure tells the story behind the boom in commercial publishing in nineteenth-century North India. How did the new technology of printing and the enterprise of Indian publishers make the book a familiar object and a necessary part of people s leisure in a largely illiterate society? What genres became popular in print? Who read them and how were they read? Our perception of North Indian culture in this period has been dominated by the notion of a competition between Hindi and Urdu, and the growth of language nationalism. Print and Pleasure argues that many other forces were also at work which, in the pursuit of commercial interests, spread quite different and much more hybrid tastes. The importance of this major new book lies in showing, moreover, that book history can greatly enrich our understanding of literary and cultural history. Francesca Orsini mines a huge and largely untapped archive in order to reveal that popular songbooks, theatre transcripts, meanderingly seralized narratives, flimsily published tales, and forgotten poems are as much a part of colonial history as the elite novels and highbrow journals that are more frequently the subject of historical studies. (jacket).…

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Softcover. Condition: Very good. Out of print. Great condition. Upper spine edge is slightly bumped. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Today, Hindi and Urdu are considered two separate languages, each with its own script, history, literary canon and cultural orientation. Yet, pre-colonial India was a deeply multilingual society with multiple traditions of knowledge and literary production. Historically the divisions between Hindi and Urdu were not as sharp as we imagine them today. The essays in this volume reassess the definition and identity of language in the light of this. Its aim is to move away from the received historical narratives of Hindi and Urdu, and look afresh at the textual material available in order to attempt a more complex picture of the north Indian literary culture that is more attuned to the nuances of register, accent, language choice, genre and audiences. Various factors that would lead one to consider a broader range of texts and tastes that lay before poets and writers in those times are examined. For instance, why did a Sant write in Nagari Rekhta? Why did a Persian poet or an Avadhi Sufi mix Hindavi and Persian? Whatever their motivations, all these cases speak of an awareness of multiple literary models. It also implies a keenness towards experimenting with other literary or oral traditions that go against the purist intentions of modern literary historians. This volume thus looks at the rearticulation of language and its identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and will be useful for students of modern Indian history, language studies and cultural studies.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents: Introduction: Francesca Orsini and Ravikant. 1. Why Hinglish is a process and not a language/Ratnakar Tripathy. 2. One whisky and one masala dosa: The many meanings of Hinglish in advertising/Santosh Desai. 3. Hinglish is cool yaar!/Ravi Ratlami (Translated by Mehak Sawhney). 4. Hindi in the time of remix: Hinglish and Navbharat Times/Rohit Prakash (Translated by Francesca Orsini). 5. 'Not too nanga-panga?': Variety, mixing, and stratification in a Hinglish chick lit novel/Francesca Orsini. 6. 'Hindi hain hum': Publishing in Hinglish/Aakriti Mandhwani. 7. 'Hinglishtani' cinema: Historicising the contemporary/Ravikant. 8. 'I do fatafat constipation with goras in tip-top gora English': Hinglish and English accents and speech in Jab Tak Hai Jaan/Helen Ashton and Rachel Dwyer. 9. Hinglish signage@small town bazaar/Ravikant. 10. The insurrectionary lateral-ness of Bhojpuri media/Akshaya Kumar. 11. Hinglish hierarchies: The two-way process of linguistic humiliation on reality TV in India/Mohini Gupta. 12. Hinglish FM: Kuch political ho jaye/Vineet Kumar. 13. Bad, good and appropriate English: Negotiating English proficiency in Bangalore, India/Sazana Jayadeva. 14. Fluidity, scale, and the colonial experience: A postcard from Senegal/Friederike Lupke. Index. This contributory volume offers a critical engagement with the linguistic, cultural, social questions surrounding Hinglish. Hinglish Live asks questions about English and language mixing in contemporary India across a range of media domains: from English teaching to advertising; FM radio to literature; newspapers to cinema; technology to TV programmes. The essays in this volume are interdisciplinary, juxtaposing the personal with the political, the academic with the popular and are complemented by a selection of images that demonstrate how widespread the use of Hinglish is.…

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Condition: Fine. 512 pp., hardcover, new in a fine dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

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Condition: Good. Volume 62. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780521856782.…

Condition: Good. Volume 62. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780521856782.…