The Rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri Goodyear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suleri Goodyear, Sara, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.

Indic literature (English).

Anglo-Indian literature--History and criticism.

Anglo-Indian literature.

English literature--Indic influences.

English literature.

English language--India--Rhetoric.

English language.

Imperialism in literature.

British--India--History.

British.

Colonies in literature.

India--In literature.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority. "A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."-Jean Sudrann, Choice

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Rhetoric of English India

2. Edmund Burke and the Indian Sublime

3. Reading the Trial of Warren Hastings

4. The Feminine Picturesque

5. The Adolescence of Kim

6. Forster's Imperial Erotic

7. Naipaul's Arrival

8. Salman Rushdie: Embodiments of Blasphemy, Censorships of Shame

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-219) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226050980

022605098X

OCLC:

881165607