Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Series)

Viswanathan, Gauri

ISBN 10: 0231070845 / ISBN 13: 9780231070843

Edité par Columbia University Press, 1989

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• Titre: Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Series)
• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0231070845
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780231070843
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

Masks of Conquest reveals how English studies introduced in India under British rule came to be an effective form of political control abetting voluntary cultural assimilation. The author argues that the literary text functioned as a mirror of the ideal Englishman and became a mask of exploitation that camouflaged the material activities of the colonizing British government.