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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... originality and its lack seems to haunt much of the work on colonialism and the postcolonial condition at the current conjuncture . This preoccupation with originality and secondariness has , of course , a history , one that is ...
... originality and its lack seems to haunt much of the work on colonialism and the postcolonial condition at the current conjuncture . This preoccupation with originality and secondariness has , of course , a history , one that is ...
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... originality and mimicry ; they have been engaged with the problematic that — for want of a better term — one might call " philosophi- cal or epistemic secondariness . " Many of the debates about these issues have cohered not so much ...
... originality and mimicry ; they have been engaged with the problematic that — for want of a better term — one might call " philosophi- cal or epistemic secondariness . " Many of the debates about these issues have cohered not so much ...
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... originality and an insufficient imitativeness . In his more recent book , The Nation and Its Fragments : Colonial and Postcolonial Histories , Chatterjee pro- vides an analysis of the modes through which ( primarily male ) nationalist ...
... originality and an insufficient imitativeness . In his more recent book , The Nation and Its Fragments : Colonial and Postcolonial Histories , Chatterjee pro- vides an analysis of the modes through which ( primarily male ) nationalist ...
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... originality and simulation function , as one must assume they do , not just for and among " western " ( a category that includes " west- ernized " Indian elites ) subjects , how do they " translate " across or intersect with ...
... originality and simulation function , as one must assume they do , not just for and among " western " ( a category that includes " west- ernized " Indian elites ) subjects , how do they " translate " across or intersect with ...
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... originality and imperson- ation in the subject - constituting project of a range of subjects from En- glishmen to Indian women nationalists . It seeks to demonstrate the irre- ducible signif1cance of this trope to questions of colonial ...
... originality and imperson- ation in the subject - constituting project of a range of subjects from En- glishmen to Indian women nationalists . It seeks to demonstrate the irre- ducible signif1cance of this trope to questions of colonial ...
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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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