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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... identification , and resistance through the lens of that ensemble of positions , affects , and activities to which one can assign the portmanteau term mimicry . Queer theorists have devoted considerable critical attention to the ...
... identification , and resistance through the lens of that ensemble of positions , affects , and activities to which one can assign the portmanteau term mimicry . Queer theorists have devoted considerable critical attention to the ...
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... identified as key to an understanding of Indian postcoloniality is thus the effect of an aporia , transfixed as the nation ( or its representative ) is between an insufficient originality and an insufficient imitativeness . In his more ...
... identified as key to an understanding of Indian postcoloniality is thus the effect of an aporia , transfixed as the nation ( or its representative ) is between an insufficient originality and an insufficient imitativeness . In his more ...
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... identification disallows any en- gagement with questions of sexuality , gender , religion , and class . My proj- ect , then , is to stage precisely such an encounter and , in the process , to imagine another scene of impersonation and ...
... identification disallows any en- gagement with questions of sexuality , gender , religion , and class . My proj- ect , then , is to stage precisely such an encounter and , in the process , to imagine another scene of impersonation and ...
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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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