LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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New Insights on the Cultural Politics of English Studies:
Agenda beyond the Traditional Canon in
the Second Language Curriculum Development

M. Mangalaprathaban, M.A. (CIEFL)

Cultural Imperialism

The firm establishment of English Studies dates back to Macaulay’s Minute recommending English education for the future bureaucrats of the British regime and its cultural imperialism being rendered to its literary and cultural artifacts. The Imperialist Ideology exists within the cultural subjects of the so-called Commonwealth even today, as we still celebrate the need to analyse and interpret the traditional canon without much critical examination of their ideology and agenda in most of our classrooms.

Subaltern Studies Not Yet Accepted Fully

The birth of Subaltern studies has yet to become a reality among the privileged apex of our curriculum developers (Ania Loomba uses this phrase in her article Teaching the Bard in India in the book “Subject to Change” ed. by Susie Tharu, 1998:33) as most of us are interested in educating the politically apartheid of the marginalised sections of our society with the tools of language in the limited cultural contexts. The idea of education is always conditioned by the appropriation of the rulers in order to maintain their dominance over the subalterns.

Focus of This Paper

This research paper aims at bringing new insights of the cultural studies perspective by identifying new literatures within our regional cultural hemisphere.

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M. Mangalaprathaban, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
India
mangalaprathaban@gmail.com
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