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The Audacious Raconteur Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India / Leela Prasad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prasad, Leela, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism in literature.
- Politics and literature--India--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Politics and literature--India--History--19th century.
- Storytelling--Political aspects--India.
- Storytelling.
- Literature and society--India--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and society--India--History--19th century.
- India--Intellectual life--20th century.
- India.
- India--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2020
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "An Acre of Ground"
- The Ruse of Colonial Modernity : Anna Liberata de Souza
- The History of the English Empire as a Fall : P.V. Ramaswami Raju
- The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami
- The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. Natesa Sastri
- Conclusion : The Sovereign Self.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501752292
- 1501752294
- OCLC:
- 1141038618
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