Empire, the national, and the postcolonial, 1890-1920
Subtitle: resistance in interaction
By: Elleke Boehmer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Imperialism; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism; International relations; Literature -- History and criticism
Description: This volume explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction; title: Cross-national Intertextuality; title: Networks of Resistance 12; title: The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman 25; title: 2. India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta. 34; title: 'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter 34; title: A Warlike Spirituality 45; title: The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context 49; title: Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita 57; title: 'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship 67; title: 3. 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of; title: Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita. 79; title: Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves' 80; title: The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell' 88; title: A Joint 'Cry for Battle' 94; title: 'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links Io6; title: 4. 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism 125; title: A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career 131; title: Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend' 150; title: 5. 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. 169; title: Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World 169; title: Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism 184; title: The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist 191; title: Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle 201.