LEADER 03173nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910456839103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8214-4334-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036433 035 $a(EBL)1743706 035 $a(OCoLC)758542931 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379496 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568136 035 $a(PQKB)10564346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743706 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743706 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472396 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036433 100 $a20090217d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaking words matter$b[electronic resource] $ethe agency of colonial and postcolonial literature /$fAmbreen Hai 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1880-7 311 $a0-8214-1881-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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 Caribbean 327 $aNotes Bibliography; Untitled 330 $aWhy 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, 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 607 $aSouth Asia$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a820.9/3561 700 $aHai$b Ambreen$f1964-$01053075 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456839103321 996 $aMaking words matter$92484741 997 $aUNINA