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Record Nr.

UNISA996379038803316

Autore

Prasad Leela

Titolo

The Audacious Raconteur : Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India / / Leela Prasad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5017-5229-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

809/.8954

Soggetti

Imperialism in literature

Politics and literature - India - History - 20th century

Politics and literature - India - History - 19th century

Storytelling - Political aspects - India

Literature and society - India - History - 20th century

Literature and society - India - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

India Intellectual life 20th century

India Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--