Dreaming In Hindi

2011-08-04 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Katherine Russell Rich
Release : 2011-08-04
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Dreaming In Hindi by : Katherine Russell Rich

Download or read book Dreaming In Hindi written by Katherine Russell Rich. This book was released on 2011-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having survived a serious illness and reached an impasse in her career, Katherine Russell Rich spontaneously accepts a freelance assignment in India, where she finds herself utterly overwhelmed by the place and the language. Before she knows it she is on her way to Udaipur, a city in Rajasthan, to live with a local family and join a special language school offering 'total immersion'. What follows is a year of linguistic adventure and cultural surprises in which Rich gradually sheds her foreignness, to discover a new country and a new way of communicating. Both a clever, lucid and funny memoir, and a unique investigation into the science of language acquisition, Dreaming in Hindi offers an engrossing account of what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves.

Dreaming In Hindi

2010-06-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Katherine Russell Rich
Release : 2010-06-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Dreaming In Hindi written by Katherine Russell Rich. This book was released on 2010-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves. After miraculously surviving a serious illness, Katherine Rich found herself at an impasse in her career as a magazine editor. She spontaneously accepted a freelance writing assignment to go to India, where she found herself thunderstruck by the place and the language, and before she knew it she was on her way to Udaipur, a city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, in order to learn Hindi. Rich documents her experiences—ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating—using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her. Fascinated by the process, she went on to interview linguistics experts around the world, reporting back from the frontlines of the science wars on what happens in the brain when we learn a new language. She brings both of these experiences together seamlessly in Dreaming in Hindi, a remarkably unique and thoughtful account of self-discovery.

English Heart, Hindi Heartland

2012-02-02 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Rashmi Sadana
Release : 2012-02-02
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book English Heart, Hindi Heartland written by Rashmi Sadana. This book was released on 2012-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of debates within India about the politics of language and alongside other writers, including K. Satchidanandan, Shashi Deshpande, and Geetanjali Shree. Sadana undertakes an ethnographic study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text in order to show what language comes to stand for in people’s lives. In so doing, she unmasks a social discourse rife with questions of authenticity and cultural politics of inclusion and exclusion. English Heart, Hindi Heartland illustrates how the notion of what is considered to be culturally and linguistically authentic not only obscures larger questions relating to caste, religious, and gender identities, but that the authenticity discourse itself is continually in flux. In order to mediate and extract cultural capital from India’s complex linguistic hierarchies, literary practitioners strategically deploy a fluid set of cultural and political distinctions that Sadana calls “literary nationality.” Sadana argues that English, and the way it is positioned among the other Indian languages, does not represent a fixed pole, but rather serves to change political and literary alliances among classes and castes, often in surprising ways.

Dreaming in Hindi

2009 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Russell, Rich Katherine
Release : 2009
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 722/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dreaming in Hindi written by Russell, Rich Katherine. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Inspirational and often hilarious memoir, the author recounts her experiences in India using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective on the country.

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