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Writing under the Raj : gender, race, and rape in the British colonial imagination, 1830-1947
- Title
- Writing under the Raj : gender, race, and rape in the British colonial imagination, 1830-1947 / Nancy L. Paxton.
- Author
- Paxton, Nancy L., 1949-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©1999.
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- Description
- xi, 338 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Examining the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paxton shows how it reflects basic concepts in the social and sexual contracts defining the women's relationship to the nation state.
- Subject
- 1765-1999
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Anglo-Indian fiction > History and criticism
- Rape in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Race in literature
- Sex role in literature
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- English literature
- Politics and government
- Englisch
- Geschlechterverhältnis Motiv
- Kolonialismus
- Kolonialliteratur
- Literatur
- Vergewaltigung Motiv
- Indienbild
- Letterkunde
- Koloniale literatuur
- Verkrachting
- Raj
- Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise > Influence indienne (de l'Inde)
- Geschlechterbeziehung <Motiv>
- India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
- India > Politics and government > 1765-1947
- India
- Britisch-Indien
- Indien
- India > In literature
- Inde > Histoire > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
- Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1765-1947
- Englisch
- Indien <Motiv>
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-313) and index.
- Contents
- Rape, the body, and the sacrifices of desire: British romantic poetry and representations of the colonial harem -- The temple dancer: Eroticism and religious ecstasy -- Mobilizig chivalry: Rape in national epics about the indian uprising of 1957 -- Hostage to history: The Rani of Jhansi in romances about the indian mutiny -- Lost children: Nationalism and the reinscription of the gendered body -- Mixed couples: The new woman and interracial marriage -- Modernism, irony, and the erasure of rape: Recontextualizing a passage to India.
- ISBN
- 0813526000
- 9780813526003
- 0813526019
- 9780813526010
- 0585263957
- 9780585263953
- LCCN
- 98019522
- OCLC
- ocm39292772
- 39292772
- SCSB-800124
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library