Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj [electronic resource] /
Rajamannar, S.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by James R. Kincaid; Acknowledgments; Glossary; 1 Introduction: Why the Animal? Or, Can the Subaltern Roar, and Other Risky Questions: Some Theoretical Frameworks; 2 Animals, Children, and Street Urchins; 3 Herein the British Nimrod May View a New and Arduous Species of the Chase: Hunting Narratives and the British Raj, 1757-1857; 4 Our Rightful Claim to Superiority as a Dominant Race: Hunting Narratives and the British Raj, 1857-1947; 5 Animals, Humans, and Natural Laws: Kipling and Forster
6 Making Kingdoms Out of BeastsNotes; Illustration Credits; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
British literature.
Asia—History.
Imperialism.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Asian History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.