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