The Rhetoric of English India
240 pages
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2 halftone
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6 x 9
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© 1992
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
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
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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