Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial IndiaUniversity of California Press, 2023 M09 1 - 237 páginas The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources—religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films—making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or "westernized" subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with "going native," an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress's emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the "muscular Hinduism" of Swami Vivekananda. Indian Traffic demonstrates that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the nationalist discourses of South Asia and are central to the conceptual identity of South Asian postcolonial theory itself. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/el |
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... British - India - History . 10. Colonies in literature . 11. Group identity - India . 12. India Civilization . I. Title . PR9485.2.R69 1998 820.9'954 - dc20 96-42104 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 6 5 4 3 2 1 The ...
... British - India - History . 10. Colonies in literature . 11. Group identity - India . 12. India Civilization . I. Title . PR9485.2.R69 1998 820.9'954 - dc20 96-42104 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 6 5 4 3 2 1 The ...
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... British subjects in the ( uneven ) field of colonial encounter ? Within what symbolic orders or discursive formations does one account for the colonizer's desire to " go native " ? In what ways do Indian subjects themselves understand ...
... British subjects in the ( uneven ) field of colonial encounter ? Within what symbolic orders or discursive formations does one account for the colonizer's desire to " go native " ? In what ways do Indian subjects themselves understand ...
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... British experience in the last century and a half . An irreducible horizon , then , for the analyses is the modern ( colonial and postcolonial ) history of the region , with its porous , intersecting , and mu- tually constitutive ...
... British experience in the last century and a half . An irreducible horizon , then , for the analyses is the modern ( colonial and postcolonial ) history of the region , with its porous , intersecting , and mu- tually constitutive ...
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... ( British and American ) cultural studies , whom I would wish to solicit as readers , might find the South Asian scholarship unfamiliar and therefore uninviting . It is also pos- sible that some ( though by no means all ) South Asianist ...
... ( British and American ) cultural studies , whom I would wish to solicit as readers , might find the South Asian scholarship unfamiliar and therefore uninviting . It is also pos- sible that some ( though by no means all ) South Asianist ...
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Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India Parama Roy Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India Parama Roy Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India Parama Roy Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
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