Indian traffic : identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India / / Parama Roy

• Autore: Roy Parama
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 3 illustrations
• Disciplina: 820.9/954
• Soggetto topico: Indic literature (English) - History and criticism - 20th century - India; British; Colonies in literature; Group identity; National characteristics, East Indian, in literature - History - India; Literature and society - History and criticism - India; Anglo-Indian literature - History - India; Postcolonialism in literature - History - India; Postcolonialism; Group identity in literature; Nationalism; Imperialism in literature
• Soggetto geografico: India Civilization
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Indian Traffic
• ISBN: 0-520-91768-5; 0-585-06990-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495962703321
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