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English versus heritage languages: The politics of language in South Asian Canadian writing.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	English versus heritage languages: The politics of language in South Asian Canadian writing./
Author:	Sayed, Asma M.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4290.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Asian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR33055
ISBN:	9780494330555

English versus heritage languages: The politics of language in South Asian Canadian writing.
Sayed, Asma M.

English versus heritage languages: The politics of language in South Asian Canadian writing. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4290.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2007.

In this dissertation, through the study of South Asian Canadian writing, both in English and heritage languages, I discuss the interrelationship of language, literature, culture, and diaspora. Comparative in approach, this project recognizes the value of exploring national literatures from a multicultural, multilingual angle. I demonstrate how the authors employing heritage languages in English writing or how those writing solely in heritage languages deal with the issues related to diaspora, and how by returning to indigenous languages, they restructure attitudes to the local and native cultures.

ISBN: 9780494330555Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017599
Literature, Asian.

English versus heritage languages: The politics of language in South Asian Canadian writing.
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520 $a In chapter one, I establish a relationship among language, literature, culture, and diaspora. I argue that immigrants to Canada try to retain their distinct culture, language, and identity while being part of Canadian society. In chapter two, I take a comparative look at the development of English language in the Indian subcontinent as well as in Canada, and reason that linguistic hybridity is a result of the coming together of various cultures. In chapter three, I introduce different ways by which writers have used heritage languages. Looking at diverse technical strategies in light of Bakhtin's theory, I determine that South Asian Canadian writers have created a language unique to themselves through various tactics. I contend that the use of neo-English is not an innocent act on the part of the writer; rather, linguistic hybridity is a political act which serves the purpose of resistance, cultural retention, and an expression of hybrid identity. In chapter four, I take a detailed look at the vernacular tradition in South Asian Canadian writing. Finally, in chapter five I provide a detailed comparison of both the English and vernacular traditions of writing, and make a case for the redefinition of the canon of Canadian literature so as to make it more inclusive and diverse.
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