Allegories of empire : the figure of woman in the colonial text

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Allegories of empire : the figure of woman in the colonial text

Jenny Sharpe

University of Minnesota Press, c1993

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-164) and index

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ISBN 9780816620593

内容説明

In "Allegories of Empire", Jenny Sharpe brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction. She argues that the idea of Indian men raping white women was not part of the colonial landscape prior to the revolt that was remembered as the savage attack of mutinous Indian soldiers on defenceless English women. Through careful reading and analysis, Sharpe reveals the English woman as an important cultural figure in the articulation and establishment of a colonial hierarchy of race. "Allegories of Empire" is a postcolonial critical work that analyzes colonial discourse through feminist criticism and post-orientalist historiography. Sharpe argues that the absence or negation of Indian women is an important element of colonial discourse. At the same time, she insists that there is no alternative narrative to recover in its entirety. By showing how contemporary theories of female agency are implicated in an imperial past, Sharpe makes the case that such models are inappropriate, not only for discussion of colonized women, but for European women as well. Feminist theory needs to begin from difference and dislocation rather than from identity and correspondence if it is to get beyond the race-gender-class impasse. The strength of Sharpe's work lies in its introduction of race and colonialism to feminist theories of rape and sexual difference, and her deployment of women's writing to undo the appropriation of English (universal) womanhood for the perpetuation of Empire. Jenny Sharpe has contributed articles to "Modern Fiction Studies", "Genders", and "Boundary 2". This book is intended for feminist studies, literary theory, South Asian studies.

目次

  • Introduction - Neocolonial conditions of reading
  • The rise of women in an age of progress - Jane Eyre
  • The civilizing mission disfigured
  • The rise of memsahibs in an age of Empire - On the face of the waters
  • The unspeakable limits of civility - A passage to India
  • The ruins of time - The jewel in the crown.
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: pbk ISBN 9780816620609

内容説明

Allegories of Empire was first published in 1993."Allegories of Empire re-constellates a metropolitan masterpiece, Forster's A Passage to India, within colonial discourse studies. Sharpe, a materialist feminist, is scrupulous in her use of theory to articulate nationalism, historical race-gendering, and contemporary feminist critique." -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University"Jenny Sharpe has done a great service in opening up the virtually taboo subject of the rape of the white woman by the colored man, and, furthermore, in teaching us theory - making by locating this frenzy of fantasy and reality within a specific crisis of European colonialism in India. ... In showing how a 'wild anthropology' must continuously rework feminism in the face of racism, and vice versa, she shows how the margins of empire were and still are at its center." -Michael Taussig, New York UniversityAllegories of Empire introduces race and colonialism to feminist theories of rape and sexual difference, deploying women's writing to undo the appropriation of English (universal) womanhood for the perpetuation of Empire.Sharpe brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British adn Anglo-Indian fiction. She argues that the idea of Indian men raping white women was not part of the colonial landscape prior to the revolt that was remembered as the savage attack of mutinous Indian soldiers on defenseless English women.By showing how contemporary theories of female agency are implicated in an imperial past, Sharpe argues that such models are inappropriate, not only for discussion of colonized women, but for European women as well. Ultimately, she insists that feminist theory must begin from difference and dislocation rather than from identity and correspondence if it is to get beyond the race-gender-class impasse.Jenny Sharpe received her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has contributed articles to Modern Fiction Studies, Genders, and boundary 2.

目次

  • Introduction - Neocolonial conditions of reading
  • The rise of women in an age of progress - Jane Eyre
  • The civilizing mission disfigured
  • The rise of memsahibs in an age of Empire - On the face of the waters
  • The unspeakable limits of civility - A passage to India
  • The ruins of time - The jewel in the crown.

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