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. |
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... century . 4. Anglo - Indian literature - History and criticism . 5. Group identity in literature . 6. Decolonization in literature . 7. Nationalism - India - History . 8. Imperialism in literature . 9. British - India - History . 10 ...
... century . 4. Anglo - Indian literature - History and criticism . 5. Group identity in literature . 6. Decolonization in literature . 7. Nationalism - India - History . 8. Imperialism in literature . 9. British - India - History . 10 ...
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... century later by Frantz Fanon , writing ( in the resonantly titled Black Skin , White Masks ) on the conflictual economies of colonialism and racism : " For the black man there is only one destiny . And it is white . " 2 That the access ...
... century later by Frantz Fanon , writing ( in the resonantly titled Black Skin , White Masks ) on the conflictual economies of colonialism and racism : " For the black man there is only one destiny . And it is white . " 2 That the access ...
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... century nationalisms , " without noticing the twists and turns , the suppressed possibilities , the contradictions still unresolved " ; he taxes them , in other words , with effecting an erasure of ( post ) colonial difference . Us- ing ...
... century nationalisms , " without noticing the twists and turns , the suppressed possibilities , the contradictions still unresolved " ; he taxes them , in other words , with effecting an erasure of ( post ) colonial difference . Us- ing ...
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... century , en- compassing colonial and post - Independence India , in order to explore the consequences and transmutation of the trope of originality and imperson- ation in the subject - constituting project of a range of subjects from ...
... century , en- compassing colonial and post - Independence India , in order to explore the consequences and transmutation of the trope of originality and imperson- ation in the subject - constituting project of a range of subjects from ...
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... centuries around the problematic of repetition and difference : the English ( male ) fascination with " going native ... century and a half . An irreducible horizon , then , for the analyses is the modern ( colonial and postcolonial ) ...
... centuries around the problematic of repetition and difference : the English ( male ) fascination with " going native ... century and a half . An irreducible horizon , then , for the analyses is the modern ( colonial and postcolonial ) ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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