Title: The male empire under the female gaze : the British raj and the memsahib /
Authors: Roye, Susmita,; Rajeshwar, M. 1961-; Roye, Susmita,; Rajeshwar, M. 1961-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Anglo-Indian prose literature Women authors History and criticism.; Women and literature India.; Women in literature; Imperialism in literature.; Colonies in literature.; British India Intellectual life; India In literature.
Contents: Introduction: (re)viewing the gaze / Susmita Roye and Rajeshwar Mittapalli -- Memsahib's literature -- Wide range of memsahib's writings. Inscribing the "taaje": gender and colonization in Lady Maria Nugent's India journal / Lisa Nevssrez -- Missing children: representations of Anglo-Indian maternity / Helen Pike Bauer -- Focus on memsahib's fiction. Cross-gendered voice and disguise: a discourse on race, class and gender in British India / Susmita Roye -- Supernatural empire: the Anglo-Indian ghost stories of Bithia Mary Croker and Alice Perrin / Melissa Edmundson -- Memsahib in literature -- Colonial sahibs' depiction of the memsahib. The taming of the shrew: A passage to India as a female bildungsroman / Minjeong Kim -- A feminine ear: listening for alternatives to the imperial gaze in E.M. Forster's A passage to India / Benjamin Bateman -- Postcolonial perspectives on the memsahib -- The disguised gaze: cross-cultural gender relations in Ruskin Bond's A flight of pigeons / Mitali Gangopadhyay -- Memsahibs in the sun: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and dust and feminist "Orientalism" / Modhumita Roy.