Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India - Couverture souple

Viswanathan, Gauri

 
9780231070850: Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231070853 ISBN 13 : 9780231070850
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 1992

Synopsis

In nineteenth-century India, Gauri Viswanathan argues, the English literary text functioned as a mirror of the ideal Englishman in his most perfect state. The literature became a mask for economic exploitation that camouflaged the material activities of the colonizing British government. Viswanathan shows how the English studies introduced in India under British colonial rule came to be a most effective form of political control and how this abetted voluntary cultural assimilation. The author argues that challenges to the literary canon must take account of the role of Empire in the creation of modern English studies.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231070853
ISBN 13 
9780231070850
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780231070843: Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0231070845 ISBN 13 :  9780231070843
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 1989
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