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Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / Yumna Siddiqi.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Siddiqi, Yumna.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English fiction.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
Intrigue in literature.
Espionage in literature.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society.
Authors, South Asian.
Great Britain.
History.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Physical Description:
xi, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Contents:
Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue
Imperial intrigue in an English country house
Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed
The fiction of counterinsurgency
Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue
Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason
"Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India
"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:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-268) and index.
ISBN:
9780231138086
0231138083
9780231138093
0231138091
9780231510868
0231510861
OCLC:
85484930

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