An edition of Writing India 1757-1990 (1996)

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the literature of British India

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An edition of Writing India 1757-1990 (1996)

Writing India, 1757-1990

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Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
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English
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271

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Rhetoric, Indic literature (English), Anglo-Indian literature, Literature and society, Intellectual life, History and criticism, English language, Discourse analysis, History, Indic literature (english)--history and criticism, Anglo-indian literature--history and criticism, Literature and society--history, Literature and society--india--history--18th century, English language--rhetoric, English language--india--rhetoric, Pr9489.4 .w75 1996, 820.9/954

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Writing India, 1757-1990: The Literature of British India
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Writing India, reorienting colonial discourse analysis.
1. 'The Fearful Name of the Black Hole': fashioning an imperial myth.
2. Towards an Anglo-Indian Poetry? The colonial muse in the writings of John Leyden, Thomas Medwin and Charles D'Oyly.
3. Meadows Taylor's "Confessions of a Thug": the Anglo-Indian novel as a genre in the making.
4. 'The Bhabhal of Tongues': reading Kipling, reading Bhabha.
5. Secrets of the colonial harem: gender, sexuality, and the law in Kipling's novels.
6. Married to the empire: the Anglo-Indian domestic novel.
7. Volatile desire - ambivalence and distress in Forster's colonial narratives.
8. "I am your Mother and your Father" - Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet" and the dissolution of imperial identity.
9. Salman Rushdie - from colonial politics to postmodern poetics.

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Includes bibliogrphical references and index.

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820.9/954
Library of Congress
PR9489.4 .W75 1996

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x, 271 p. :
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271

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OL795685M
ISBN 10
0719042658, 0719042666
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