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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, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xi, 290 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Drawing on the work of leading theorists of imperialism, Yumna Siddiqi reveals how British writers express the anxious workings of a will to maintain imperial power in their writing. She also illuminates the ways South Asian writers portray the paradoxes of postcolonial modernity and trace the ruses and uses of reason in a world where the modern marks a horizon not only of hope but also of economic, military, and ecological disaster."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Anxiety in literature
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Postcolonialism in literature
- English fiction > South Asian authors > History and criticism
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Intrigue in literature
- Espionage in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue -- 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House -- 3. Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire": The Return of the Repressed -- 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency -- 5. Intermezzo: Postcolonial Modernity and the Fiction of Intrigue -- 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason -- 7. "Deep in Blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the Representation of State Violence in India -- 8. "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.
- ISBN
- 9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231138083 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231138093 (pbk.)
- 0231138091 (pbk.)
- 9780231510868 (electronic)
- 0231510861 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2007006785
- OCLC
- ocm85484930
- 85484930
- SCSB-5396646
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries