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Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue
- Title
- Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / Yumna Siddiqi.
- Author
- Siddiqi, Yumna.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 290 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Postcolonialism in literature
- English fiction > South Asian authors > History and criticism
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Espionage in literature
- Anxiety in literature
- Intrigue in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index.
- Contents
- Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-1163
- ISBN
- 9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231138083 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231138093 (pbk.)
- 0231138091 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007006785
- OCLC
- 85484930
- Author
- Siddiqi, Yumna.
- Title
- Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / Yumna Siddiqi.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-1163