Colonial voices [[electronic resource] ] : the discourses of empire / / Pramod K. Nayar |
Autore | Nayar Pramod K |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester [England] ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3585403 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature National characteristics, English, in literature Exoticism in literature Other (Philosophy) in literature Discourse analysis, Narrative |
ISBN |
1-280-58573-0
9786613615565 1-118-27897-6 1-118-27900-X 1-118-27899-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141295603321 |
Nayar Pramod K
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Colonial voices [[electronic resource] ] : the discourses of empire / / Pramod K. Nayar |
Autore | Nayar Pramod K |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester [England] ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3585403 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature National characteristics, English, in literature Exoticism in literature Other (Philosophy) in literature Discourse analysis, Narrative |
ISBN |
1-280-58573-0
9786613615565 1-118-27897-6 1-118-27900-X 1-118-27899-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825346003321 |
Nayar Pramod K
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Chichester [England] ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 | ||
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Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture / / Caroline Reitz |
Autore | Reitz Caroline |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxv, 123 p. ) |
Disciplina | 823/.087209358 |
Soggetto topico |
Police in literature
Colonies in literature Imperialism in literature English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8142-7310-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : imperial detection -- Bad cop/good cop : Godwin, Mill, and the imperial origins of the English detective -- Thuggee and the "discovery" of the English detective -- Making an English virtue of necessity : Dickens and Collins bring it home -- Separated at birth : Doyle, Kipling, and the partition of English detective fiction -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552774403321 |
Reitz Caroline
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2004 | ||
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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai |
Autore | Pirbhai Mariam <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914093553 |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - South Asian authors - History and criticism
South Asian diaspora in literature South Asians in literature |
ISBN | 1-4426-9780-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1: The South Asian Diaspora. Multiple voices of indenture history: an introduction ; New approaches to an old Diaspora: theorizing texts and contexts -- pt. 2: Africa. The indenture narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry's That others might live ; "Passenger Indians" and disposed citizens in Uganda and South Africa: Peter Nazareth's In a brown mantle and Farida Karodia's Daughters of the twilight -- pt. 3: The Caribbean. New configurations of identity for the Indo-Guyanese "this time generation": Rooplall Monar's Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow is another day ; Indo-Trinidadian fictions of community within the metanarratives of "faith": Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly in the wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The elect -- part 4: Asia-Pacific. The politics of (the English) language in Malaysia and Singapore: K.S. Maniam's The return and Gopal Baratham's A candle or the sun ; From the Ganges to South Seas: Fiji as "fatal paradise" in Satendra Nandan's The wounded sea. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791554203321 |
Pirbhai Mariam <1970->
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Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai |
Autore | Pirbhai Mariam <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914093553 |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - South Asian authors - History and criticism
South Asian diaspora in literature South Asians in literature |
ISBN | 1-4426-9780-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1: The South Asian Diaspora. Multiple voices of indenture history: an introduction ; New approaches to an old Diaspora: theorizing texts and contexts -- pt. 2: Africa. The indenture narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry's That others might live ; "Passenger Indians" and disposed citizens in Uganda and South Africa: Peter Nazareth's In a brown mantle and Farida Karodia's Daughters of the twilight -- pt. 3: The Caribbean. New configurations of identity for the Indo-Guyanese "this time generation": Rooplall Monar's Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow is another day ; Indo-Trinidadian fictions of community within the metanarratives of "faith": Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly in the wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The elect -- part 4: Asia-Pacific. The politics of (the English) language in Malaysia and Singapore: K.S. Maniam's The return and Gopal Baratham's A candle or the sun ; From the Ganges to South Seas: Fiji as "fatal paradise" in Satendra Nandan's The wounded sea. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819309503321 |
Pirbhai Mariam <1970->
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Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry |
Autore | Parry Benita |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.891724
820.9/9171241 |
Collana | Postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Theory, etc
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Decolonization - Great Britain - Colonies Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Postcolonialism in literature Decolonization in literature Materialism in literature Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-30741-1
0-415-33599-X 1-280-02615-4 0-203-42053-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light
Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to IndiaReconciliation and remembrance; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450978003321 |
Parry Benita
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry |
Autore | Parry Benita |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.891724
820.9/9171241 |
Collana | Postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Theory, etc
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Decolonization - Great Britain - Colonies Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Postcolonialism in literature Decolonization in literature Materialism in literature Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature |
ISBN |
1-134-30740-3
1-134-30741-1 0-415-33599-X 1-280-02615-4 0-203-42053-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light
Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to IndiaReconciliation and remembrance; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783834503321 |
Parry Benita
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry |
Autore | Parry Benita |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.891724
820.9/9171241 |
Collana | Postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Theory, etc
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Decolonization - Great Britain - Colonies Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Postcolonialism in literature Decolonization in literature Materialism in literature Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature |
ISBN |
1-134-30740-3
1-134-30741-1 0-415-33599-X 1-280-02615-4 0-203-42053-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light
Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to IndiaReconciliation and remembrance; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820012203321 |
Parry Benita
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
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Writing the empire : Robert Southey and Romantic colonialism / / by Carol Bolton |
Autore | Bolton Carol |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
Disciplina | 821.7 |
Collana | Enlightenment World |
Soggetto topico |
Romanticism - England - History - 19th century
Colonies in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-315-65321-4
1-317-31539-1 1-281-12495-8 9786611124953 1-85196-544-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 'Once more I will cry aloud and spare not': Southey's Responses to the African Slave Trade; 2 'Taking possession': Southey's and Wordworth's Romantic America; 3 'Eden's happy vale': Romantic Representations of the South Pacific; 4 Thalaba the Destroyer: Southey's 'Arabian Romance'; 5 The Curse of Kehama: Missionaries, 'Monstrous Mythology' and Empire; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452108303321 |
Bolton Carol
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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Writing the empire : Robert Southey and Romantic colonialism / / by Carol Bolton |
Autore | Bolton Carol |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 821.7 |
Collana | Enlightenment world |
Soggetto topico | Romanticism - England - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-315-65321-4
1-317-31539-1 1-281-12495-8 9786611124953 1-85196-544-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 'Once more I will cry aloud and spare not' : Southey's Responses to the African Slave Trade -- 'Taking possession' : Southey's and Wordsworth's Romantic America -- 'Eden's happy vale' : Romantic Representations of the South Pacific -- Thalaba the Destroyer : Southey's 'Arabian romance' -- The Curse of Kehama : Missionaries, 'monstrous mythology' and Empire. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778271303321 |
Bolton Carol
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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