Little India [electronic resource] : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / Patrick Eisenlohr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: University of California Press : Berkeley, c2006.Description: xiv, 328 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.44096982 22
LOC classification:
  • P35.5.M4 E57 2006eb
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Contents:
Creole island or little India? : the politics of language and diaspora -- An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others -- Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance -- Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages -- Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition -- Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creole island or little India? : the politics of language and diaspora -- An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others -- Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance -- Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages -- Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition -- Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality.

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