The Five-Point Indian: Caste, Masculinity, and English Language in the Paratexts of Chetan Bhagat

• Published in: The Journal of communication inquiry Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 91 - 113
• Main Author: Rao, Pallavi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2018; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Ascent; Caste; Celebrities; Consolidation; Digital media; English language; Masculinity; Personal communication; hegemonic masculinity; textual analysis; critical and cultural studies; media discourse; postcolonialism

This article examines the literary celebrity of Indian author Chetan Bhagat and his paratextual articulations in India’s English-language media. It seeks to deconstruct the role of these paratexts in occluding how upper-caste masculinity operates as the normative script in mainstream media discourse...