Writing India, 1757-1990
Subtitle: the literature of British India
By: edited by Bart Moore-Gilbert.
Contributors: Moore-Gilbert, B. J., 1952-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Anglo-Indian literature -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- India -- History -- 18th century.; English language -- India -- Rhetoric.; Discourse analysis.; India -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliogrphical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing India, reorienting colonial discourse analysis.
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label: Introduction; label: 1
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title: 'The Fearful Name of the Black Hole': fashioning an imperial myth.; label: 2
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title: Towards an Anglo-Indian Poetry? The colonial muse in the writings of John Leyden, Thomas Medwin and Charles D'Oyly.; title: Meadows Taylor's "Confessions of a Thug": the Anglo-Indian novel as a genre in the making.
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label: 3; title: 'The Bhabhal of Tongues': reading Kipling, reading Bhabha.
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label: 4; title: Secrets of the colonial harem: gender, sexuality, and the law in Kipling's novels.
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title: Married to the empire: the Anglo-Indian domestic novel.; title: Volatile desire - ambivalence and distress in Forster's colonial narratives.
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label: 7; title: "I am your Mother and your Father" - Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet" and the dissolution of imperial identity.
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label: 8; title: Salman Rushdie - from colonial politics to postmodern poetics.
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