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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... discourse , and indeed has found significant purchase among a large number of feminist , African Americanist , and queer scholars , who have long had a marked sense of the import of the concept of mimicry— and its cognates , masquerade ...
... discourse , and indeed has found significant purchase among a large number of feminist , African Americanist , and queer scholars , who have long had a marked sense of the import of the concept of mimicry— and its cognates , masquerade ...
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... discourse are all derived from the colonial production of an educated class of natives [ whom Parry mistakenly describes as subaltern ] . " 15 None of this , of course , is meant to suggest that the work currently available on colonial ...
... discourse are all derived from the colonial production of an educated class of natives [ whom Parry mistakenly describes as subaltern ] . " 15 None of this , of course , is meant to suggest that the work currently available on colonial ...
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... discourses that have mediated Indian and 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 ...
... discourses that have mediated Indian and 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 ...
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... discourses need to be re- signified in relation to questions of originality and impersonation . The re- lations that Indian Traffic traces between symbolic orders , psychic processes , and colonial / national institutions in India will ...
... discourses need to be re- signified in relation to questions of originality and impersonation . The re- lations that Indian Traffic traces between symbolic orders , psychic processes , and colonial / national institutions in India will ...
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... discourse of thuggee , a discourse that takes its most substantial form in the archives of the Thuggee and Dacoity Department as well as in some fictionalized accounts of thug life . The thugs were — according to this colo- nial archive ...
... discourse of thuggee , a discourse that takes its most substantial form in the archives of the Thuggee and Dacoity Department as well as in some fictionalized accounts of thug life . The thugs were — according to this colo- nial archive ...
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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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