Writing India, 1757-1990 : the literature of British India
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Writing India, 1757-1990 : the literature of British India
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St Martin's Press, 1996
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This volume provides an analytic survey of the literature produced as a consequence of the long history of Britain's rule in India. From Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster to Salman Rushdie, each essay looks at changing attitudes towards India in relation to the British Empire. The mix of "popular" and "high" culture reveals the complex and ambiguous relation between colonizer and colonized over almost two hundred and fifty years.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - writing India, reorienting colonial discourse analysis, Bart Moore-Gilbert
- "The Fearful Name of the Black Hole" - fashioning an imperial myth, Kate Teltscher
- towards an Anglo-Indian poetry? - the colonial muse in the writings of John Leyden, Thomas Medwin and Charles D'Oyly, Migel Leask
- Meadows Taylor's "Confessions of a Thug" - the Anglo-Indian novel as a genre in the making, Javed Majeed
- "The Babel of Tongues" - reading Kipling, reading Bhabha, Bart Moore-Gilbert
- "Secrets of the Colonial Harem" - gender, sexuality and the law in Kipling's novels, Nancy L. Paxton
- "Married to the Empire" - the Anglo-Indian domestic novel, Alison Sainsbury
- volatile desire - ambivalence and distress in Forster's colonial narratives, Christopher Lane
- "I am your Mother and your Father" - Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet" and the dissolution of imperial identity, Danny Colwell
- Salman Rushdie - from colonial politics to postmodern poetics, Tim Parnell.
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