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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... studies a more " modern , " though provisionally Indian , mode of understanding imperson- ation and its affects through juxtaposing Bombay cinema's protocols of ( re- ligious and gendered ) representation and the production and policing ...
... studies a more " modern , " though provisionally Indian , mode of understanding imperson- ation and its affects through juxtaposing Bombay cinema's protocols of ( re- ligious and gendered ) representation and the production and policing ...
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... studies on the problem- atic of originality and difference for identity formation . My own interest in these questions , which are somewhat differently inflected in colonial and postcolonial situations , is less in the lack of coevality ...
... studies on the problem- atic of originality and difference for identity formation . My own interest in these questions , which are somewhat differently inflected in colonial and postcolonial situations , is less in the lack of coevality ...
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... studies " ; these debates , like those on identity formation and nation forma- tion , are also suffused — in ways that are perhaps not surprising but still worth attending to — with the idioms of originality and simulation , purity and ...
... studies " ; these debates , like those on identity formation and nation forma- tion , are also suffused — in ways that are perhaps not surprising but still worth attending to — with the idioms of originality and simulation , purity and ...
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... studies in the academy with the increasing prominence of this relatively privileged diasporic / immigrant figure . I ... studies have assumed a somewhat differ- ent hue , though — as we shall see — they , too , invoke in many instances a ...
... studies in the academy with the increasing prominence of this relatively privileged diasporic / immigrant figure . I ... studies have assumed a somewhat differ- ent hue , though — as we shall see — they , too , invoke in many instances a ...
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... studies , queer studies , and African American studies . It is a subfield that has , almost from the moment of its emergence in the metropolitan academy , been beset by profound doubts and apprehensions about its own institu- tional ...
... studies , queer studies , and African American studies . It is a subfield that has , almost from the moment of its emergence in the metropolitan academy , been beset by profound doubts and apprehensions about its own institu- tional ...
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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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