Research Catalog

Title

Empire, the national, and the postcolonial, 1890-1920 : resistance in interaction / Elleke Boehmer.

Author

Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Publication

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description

viii, 239 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Geschichte 1890-1920
• Imperialism
• Imperialism in literature
• Postcolonialism
• International relations
• Literature > History and criticism
• Postcolonialism in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction -- Cross-national Intertextuality -- Networks of Resistance -- The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman -- India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta -- 'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter -- A Warlike Spirituality -- The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context -- Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita -- 'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship -- 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita -- Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves' -- The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell' -- A Joint 'Cry for Battle' -- 'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links -- 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism -- A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career -- Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend' -- 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf -- Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World -- Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism -- The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist -- Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle.

ISBN

0198184468

OCLC

• 48532896
• SCSB-12727347

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library