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The Rhetoric of English India

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0226779831, 9780226779836
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17112235 bytes)
Edition
New
Pages
240\241
Time added
2022-02-03 01:15:17

Description

Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority. "A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."—Jean Sudrann, Choice Contents Acknowledgments 1. The Rhetoric of English India 2. Edmund Burke and the Indian Sublime 3. Reading the Trial of Warren Hastings 4. The Feminine Picturesque 5. The Adolescence of Kim 6. Forster’s Imperial Erotic 7. Naipaul’s Arrival 8. Salman Rushdie: Embodiments of Blasphemy, Censorships of Shame Notes Index

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