Little India : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / Patrick Eisenlohr

Author:: Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-
Published:: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: xv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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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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9780520248793 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520248791 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520248809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520248805 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index.

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