Chaudhuri / Mcdonagh / Murray Commodities and Cultures in the Colonial World

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-62001-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Reihe: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways.

This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches.

An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history, and transnational networks of print and ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaudhuri, Supriya

Mcdonagh, Josephine

Murray, Brian H.

Murray, Brian

Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder

Rajan, Rajeswari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian H. Murray and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Part 1: Making and Showing

1. Mughal on my Lapel: Miniatures, Mughalerie, and the Souvenir Market in Delhi, 1827–1880, Yutika Sharma

2. Plates and Bangles: Early Recorded Music in India, Amlan Das Gupta

3. The Overland Mail: Moving Panoramas and the Imagining of Trade and Communication Networks, John Plunkett

4. Exhibiting India: Colonial Subjects, Imperial Objects, and the Life of Commodities, Supriya Chaudhuri

Part 2: Place and Environment

5. The Composition and Decomposition of Commodities: The Colonial Careers of Coal and Ivory, Stephen Muecke

6. Profaning Water: The Sacred and Its Others, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

7. Settling the Land: the Village and the Threat of Capital in the Novel in Goa, Rochelle Pinto

Part 3: Labour and Migration

8. (Re)Moving Bodies: People, Ships and other Commodities in the Coolie Trade from Calcutta, Nilanjana Deb

9. Anxiety, Affect and Authenticity: The Commodification of Nineteenth-Century Emigrants’ Letters, Fariha Shaikh

10. Towards a Genealogy of the Village in the Nineteenth-Century British Colonial World: Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine, Josephine McDonagh

Part 4: Texts in Motion

11. Indigo and Print: the strange case of the 'Indigo-Planting Mirror' Abhijit Gupta

12. Al Jabr w’al Muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the Coming Together of Things Far Apart, Rimi B. Chatterjee

13. Ulysses in Darkest Africa: Transporting Tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold, Brian H. Murray

14. The Traffic in Representations: the case of Kipling's Kim, Isobel Armstrong

Über Autor(innen)

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Josephine McDonagh is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London, UK.

Brian H. Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at King’s College London.

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Global Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at New York University.