Bangladeshi Anglophone Literature: Rerouting the Hegemony of Global English
2018; Routledge; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/1369801x.2018.1443829
ISSN1469-929X
Autores Tópico(s)Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
ResumoBy examining the implicit triangulation of the English, Bangla and Urdu languages in contemporary Bangladeshi Anglophone literature, this essay puts pressure on persistent binaries in debates about the circulation of English and Anglophone literatures across the globe. A discussion of Bangladeshi English-language literature throws a wrench in the existent discourse on Global Anglophone literature and world literature. What makes Bangladesh a significant case study in discussing the language politics of the “Global Anglophone” is its status as the first and perhaps only modern nation whose formation was propelled by a movement claiming to place linguistic identity above ethnicity, race and – most importantly in terms of South Asia – religion. I argue the increasingly visible body of English-language literature produced out of Bangladesh and its diaspora reveals that English as a global lingua franca may be subverted from its hegemonic function and instead be made to serve in preventing the erasure of one non-metropolitan language by another.
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