In Another Country

Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-12585-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joshi, Priya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I: Consuming Fiction 1. The Poetical Economy of Consumption2. The Circulation of Fiction in Indian Libraries, ca. 1835;19013. Readers Write Back: The Macmillan Colonial Library in IndiaPart II: Producing Fiction 4. By Way of Transition: Bankim's Will, or Indigenizing the Novel in India5. Reforming the Novel: Krupa Satthianadhan, the Woman who Did6. The Exile at Home: Ahmed Ali's "Twilight in Delhi"7. The Other Modernism, or The Family Romance in EnglishNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Priya Joshi is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley.