Reading the animal in the literature of the British Raj
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Reading the animal in the literature of the British Raj
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index
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Description
Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture.
Table of Contents
Foreword * List of Illustrations * Glossary * Introduction: Why the Animal? Or, Can the Subaltern Roar, and Other Risky Questions. Some Theoretical Frameworks * Animals, Children, and Street Urchins * Herein the British Nimrod May View a New and Arduous Species of the Chase: Hunting narratives 1757-1857 * Our Rightful Claim to Superiority as a Dominant Race: Hunting narratives 1857-1947 * Animals, Humans, and Natural Laws: Kipling and Forster * Making Kingdoms Out of Beasts * Notes * Illustration Credits * Select Bibliography * Index
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