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Dissenters and mavericks : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 / Margery Sabin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabin, Margery, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Postcolonialism.
- Relations.
- India--In literature.
- India.
- Anglo-Indian literature--History and criticism.
- Anglo-Indian literature.
- Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Indic literature (English).
- India--Foreign public opinion, British.
- Great Britain--Relations--India.
- Great Britain.
- India--Relations--Great Britain.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Postcolonialism--India.
- India--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 239 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why dissent matters to literature
- Pt. 1. The colonial period. Anti-imperialist wit in Horace Walpole's letters ; Burke's India campaign: Goliath, scourge, redeemer ; William Henry Sleeman and the Suttee romance ; Victorian oblivion and The moonstone
- Pt. 2. After independence. The beast in Nirad Chaudhuri's garden ; The politics of cultural freedom: India in the 1950s ; Individuality as a problem in Naipaul's Indian narratives ; Epilogue: Pankaj Mishra and postcolonial cosmopolitanism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195150171
- OCLC:
- 49550897
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