Anandita Bajpai

Speaking the Nation

The Oratorical Making of Secular, Neoliberal India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Untangling the logical, lexical, and semantic patterns of the multiple official speeches of Indian prime ministers, Speaking the Nation gauges how the Indian state has been projected by different governments in different times, in the face of challenges from internal and external actors that put pressure on its leaders to safeguard their status as legitimate elites in power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199481743
• ISBN-10: 0199481741
• Artikelnr.: 54535590

Autorenporträt

Anandita Bajpai teaches at the Department for South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, and is a research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
*
* 1. The Prime Minister's Legacy and Traditions of Public Speech in
India
* 2. Time and Temporalizing Tactics I: Of Futures to Come and Futures
Past
* 3. Time and Temporalizing Tactics II: Of Iconic Past(s) and Good
Times
* 4. 'The World Is Changing ' : Othering and Spatializing Strategies
* 5. Speaking the Nation 'Secular': Elaborately Explicit, Strategically
Silent
* Conclusion
*
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author