Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Transliteration and Orthography xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Creole Island or Little India? The Politics of Language and Diaspora 22
8. 2. An Indo-Mauritian World: “Ancestral Culture,” Hindus, and Their Others 66
9. 3. Social Semiotics of Language: Shifting Registers, Narrative, and Performance 111
10. 4. Colonial Education, Ethnolinguistic Identifications, and the Origins of Ancestral Languages 168
11. 5. Performing Purity: Television and Ethnolinguistic Recognition 202
12. 6. Calibrations of Displacement: Diasporization, Ancestral Language, and Temporality 227
13. Conclusion: Time, Technology, and Language 267
14. Notes 273
15. References 297
16. Index 315