The rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodyear, Sara Suleri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.

Indic literature (English).

Anglo-Indian literature--History and criticism.

Anglo-Indian literature.

English literature--Indic influences.

English literature.

English language--India--Rhetoric.

English language.

Imperialism in literature.

British--India--History.

British.

Rhetoric.

India.

History.

Colonies in literature.

India--In literature.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1992]

Summary:

Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses onparadigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by theBritish colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both theliterature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emergehere as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures thatare 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. Foster's imperial erotic.

7. Naipaul's arrival.

8. Salman Rushdie: Embodiments of blasphemy, censorships of shame.

Notes.

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-219) and index.

ISBN:

0226779823

9780226779829

0226779831

9780226779836

OCLC:

23584165

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