The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze
Subtitle: The British Raj and the Memsahib
By: edited by Susmita Roye and Rajeshwar Mittapalli
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781604978438
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Anglo-Indian prose literature; Women authors; History and criticism; Women and literature; Women in literature; In literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; British; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: (re)viewing the gaze / Susmita Roye and Rajeshwar Mittapalli; title: Memsahib's literature; title: Wide range of memsahib's writings. Inscribing the "taaje": gender and colonization in Lady Maria Nugent's India journal / Lisa Nevssrez; title: Missing children: representations of Anglo-Indian maternity / Helen Pike Bauer; title: Focus on memsahib's fiction. Cross-gendered voice and disguise: a discourse on race, class and gender in British India / Susmita Roye; title: Supernatural empire: the Anglo-Indian ghost stories of Bithia Mary Croker and Alice Perrin / Melissa Edmundson; title: Memsahib in literature; title: Colonial sahibs' depiction of the memsahib. The taming of the shrew: A passage to India as a female bildungsroman / Minjeong Kim; title: A feminine ear: listening for alternatives to the imperial gaze in E. M. Forster's A passage to India / Benjamin Bateman; title: Postcolonial perspectives on the memsahib; title: The disguised gaze: cross-cultural gender relations in Ruskin Bond's A flight of pigeons / Mitali Gangopadhyay; title: Memsahibs in the sun: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and dust and feminist "Orientalism" / Modhumita Roy.