Effeminism : the economy of colonial desire / Revathi Krishnaswamy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

History.

India--Politics and government--1765-1947.

Politics and government.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Masculinity in literature.

Literatura inglesa--Historia y crítica--Siglo XIX.

India--Política y gobierno--1765 1947.

Local Subjects:

Literatura inglesa--Historia y crítica--Siglo XIX.

India--Política y gobierno--1765 1947.

Physical Description:

vi, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998]

Summary:

This book attempts to chart the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Arguing that the Indo-British colonial encounter is based on an ideological opposition between masculinity and effeminacy, rather than on a more conventional distinction between masculinity and femininity, the book investigates masculinity as an overdetermined site on which the multiple axes of domination and subordination are simultaneously constituted and contested. Uncovering an intricate nexus among race, caste, class, gender, sexuality, nation, moral legitimacy and economic/political power - a nexus designated by the term effeminism - the study establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire.

This book will interest not only scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and colonial and postcolonial literatures, but also those working in the areas of cultural studies, gender studies, and South Asian studies.

Contents:

Reading colonial erotics

The economy of colonial desire

Manufacturing masculinity

Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters

Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim

A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. Forster's Passage to India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-188) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960- Effeminism.

ISBN:

0472109758

9780472109753

OCLC:

741733815

Publisher Number:

99945724062

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