Masks of Conquest : Literary Study and British Rule in India / Gauri Viswanathan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viswanathan, Gauri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English.

Languages & Literatures.

English Literature.

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

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Beginnings of English Literary Study

2. Praeparatio Evangelica

3. "One Power, One Mind"

4. Rewriting English

5. Lessons of History

6. The Failure of English

7. Conclusion: Empire and the Western Canon

Notes

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231539579

0231539576

OCLC:

979739588