03173nam 2200637 a 450 991045683910332120200520144314.00-8214-4334-8(CKB)2550000000036433(EBL)1743706(OCoLC)758542931(SSID)ssj0000538844(PQKBManifestationID)11379496(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538844(PQKBWorkID)10568136(PQKB)10564346(MiAaPQ)EBC1743706(MdBmJHUP)muse9499(Au-PeEL)EBL1743706(CaPaEBR)ebr10472396(EXLCZ)99255000000003643320090217d2009 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrMaking words matter[electronic resource] the agency of colonial and postcolonial literature /Ambreen HaiAthens Ohio University Pressc20091 online resource (393 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1880-7 0-8214-1881-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Unspeakable Body of the Tale; 1: Children of an Other Language: Kipling's Stories as Interracial Progeny; 2: The Doubleness of Writing (in) Kim, or, The Art of Empire; 3: Forster's Crisis: The Intractable Body and Two Passages to India, 1910-22; 4: At the Mouth of the Caves: A Passage to India and the Language of Re-vision; 5: From a Full Stop to a Language: Rushdie's Bodily Idiom; 6: When Truth Is What It Is Told to Be: Rushdie's Storytelling, Dreams, and Endings; Epilogue: The Body as the Basis for Literary Agency: South Asia, Africa, and the CaribbeanNotes Bibliography; UntitledWhy should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child-agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E. M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self-reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored,Commonwealth fiction (English)History and criticismHuman body in literatureColonies in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureSouth AsiaIn literatureElectronic books.Commonwealth fiction (English)History and criticism.Human body in literature.Colonies in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.820.9/3561Hai Ambreen1964-1053075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456839103321Making words matter2484741UNINA