Siddiqi Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51086-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Siddiqi, Yumna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue
2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House
3. Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire": The Return of the Repressed
4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency
5. Intermezzo: Postcolonial Modernity and the Fiction of Intrigue
6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason
7. "Deep in Blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the Representation of State Violence in India
8. "The Unhistorical Dead": Violence, History, and Narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
Conclusion: "Power Smashes Into Private Lives": Cultural Politics in the New Empire
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yumna Siddiqi grew up in Bombay, where she lived by the sea. She went to college at Brandeis University outside Boston and earned a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City. She is now associate professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.