Making words matter: the agency of colonial and postcolonial literature
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1. Verfasser: Hai, Ambreen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens Ohio University Press c2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child-agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E. M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self-reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 377 p.)
ISBN:0821418807
0821418815
0821443348
9780821443347

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