LEADER 04449nam 22008295 450 001 9910495962703321 005 20220609233405.0 010 $a0-520-91768-5 010 $a0-585-06990-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520917682 035 $a(CKB)110989862155116 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000178331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12037565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229482 035 $a(PQKB)10117436 035 $a(DE-B1597)542686 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520917682 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878692 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30696896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30696896 035 $a(OCoLC)1394119118 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110989862155116 100 $a20200707h19981998 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIndian traffic $eidentities in question in colonial and postcolonial India /$fParama Roy 205 $aReprint 2019 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1998] 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) $c3 illustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-20487-5 311 0 $a0-520-20486-7 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction --$tONE. Oriental Exhibits --$tTWO. Discovering India, Imagining Thuggee --$tTHREE. Anglo/ Indians and Others --$tFOUR. As the Master Saw Her --$tFIVE. Becoming Women --$tSIX. Figuring Mother India --$tEpilogue --$tNOTES --$tSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism$y20th century$zIndia 606 $aBritish 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aGroup identity 606 $aNational characteristics, East Indian, in literature$xHistory$zIndia 606 $aLiterature and society$xHistory and criticism$zIndia 606 $aAnglo-Indian literature$xHistory$zIndia 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature$xHistory$zIndia 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aNationalism 606 $aImperialism in literature 607 $aIndia$xCivilization 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aBritish 615 0$aColonies in literature 615 0$aGroup identity 615 0$aNational characteristics, East Indian, in literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAnglo-Indian literature$xHistory 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature$xHistory 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aGroup identity in literature 615 0$aNationalism 615 0$aImperialism in literature 676 $a820.9/954 700 $aRoy$b Parama$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01208606 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495962703321 996 $aIndian Traffic$92788361 997 $aUNINA