Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue:
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Main Author: Siddiqi, Yumna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia Univ. Press 2008
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index
Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire
Physical Description:XI, 290 S. 24 cm

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