04599nam 22008895 450 991049596270332120220609233405.0978052091768205209176859780585069906058506990510.1525/9780520917682(CKB)110989862155116(SSID)ssj0000178331(PQKBManifestationID)12037565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178331(PQKBWorkID)10229482(PQKB)10117436(DE-B1597)542686(DE-B1597)9780520917682(OCoLC)1163878692(MiAaPQ)EBC30696896(Au-PeEL)EBL30696896(OCoLC)1394119118(Perlego)4210747(EXLCZ)9911098986215511620200707h19981998 fg 0engur||#||||||||txtccrIndian traffic identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India /Parama RoyReprint 2019Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1998]©19981 online resource (248 p.) 3 illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780520204874 0520204875 9780520204867 0520204867 Front matter --CONTENTS --ILLUSTRATIONS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Introduction --ONE. Oriental Exhibits --TWO. Discovering India, Imagining Thuggee --THREE. Anglo/ Indians and Others --FOUR. As the Master Saw Her --FIVE. Becoming Women --SIX. Figuring Mother India --Epilogue --NOTES --SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXThe continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources--religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films--making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or "westernized" subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with "going native," an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress's emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the "muscular Hinduism" of Swami Vivekananda. Indian Traffic demonstrates that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the nationalist discourses of South Asia and are central to the conceptual identity of South Asian postcolonial theory itself.Indic literature (English)History and criticism20th centuryIndiaBritishColonies in literatureGroup identityNational characteristics, East Indian, in literatureHistoryIndiaLiterature and societyHistory and criticismIndiaAnglo-Indian literatureHistoryIndiaPostcolonialism in literatureHistoryIndiaPostcolonialismGroup identity in literatureNationalismImperialism in literatureIndiaCivilizationIndic literature (English)History and criticismBritish.Colonies in literature.Group identity.National characteristics, East Indian, in literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistory and criticismAnglo-Indian literatureHistoryPostcolonialism in literatureHistoryPostcolonialism.Group identity in literature.Nationalism.Imperialism in literature.820.9/954Roy Paramaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1208606DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910495962703321Indian Traffic2788361UNINA