The Rhetoric of English India.

230 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Altersbedingt vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Yellowed due to age, otherwise good condition. - Sara Suleri's The Rhetoric of English India is a powerful challenge to the obsession with otherness that marks the current study of colonial discourse. Where other scholars tend to observe a strict separation between works by Western and non-Western writers, and between ruling and subject races, Suleri reconstructs a diverse Anglo-Indian narrative in which English and Indian idioms inevitably collude. The author focuses on the paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. By studying a wide range of materials, from the writings of Burke to the travel logs of nineteenth-century women such as Fanny Parks and Harriet Tytler to the fiction of Kipling, Forster, Naipaul, and Rushdie, Suleri deftly reveals the complicity that always operates in these stories. Her study succeeds not only in challenging the standard chronology of imperial history; it fundamentally recasts contemporary discourse on the theories of cultural empowerment. ISBN 9780226779836