Dissenters and mavericks: writings about India in English, 1765-2000
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Main Author: Sabin, Margery (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2002
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index
Introduction: Why dissent matters to literature -- pt. 1. The colonial period. Anti-imperialist wit in Horace Walpole's letters ; Burke's India campaign: Goliath, scourge, redeemer ; William Henry Sleeman and the Suttee romance ; Victorian oblivion and The moonstone -- pt. 2. After independence. The beast in Nirad Chaudhuri's garden ; The politics of cultural freedom: India in the 1950s ; Individuality as a problem in Naipaul's Indian narratives ; Epilogue: Pankaj Mishra and postcolonial cosmopolitanism
This study reinstates the author at the centre of the relationship between literature and history. It explores the tension between "discourse analysis" and literary criticism, then discusses writers who have achieved a measure of freedom from the limitations of their historical moments
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 239 p.)
ISBN:0195150171
0195348702
1280532378
9780195150179
9780195348705
9781280532375

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