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Colonial Voices
The Discourses of Empire
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2012
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4443-3865-2 (ISBN)
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4443-3865-2 (ISBN)
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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves.An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populationsAnalyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and traveloguesSurveys 400 years of India's history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences
Pramod K. Nayar is a member of the English Faculty at the University of Hyderabad, India. He has been Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Charles Wallace India Trust-British Council Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Fulbright Senior Fellow at Cornell University. His many publications include "States of Sentiment: Exploring the Cultures of Emotion" (2011), " An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures" (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), "Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed" (2010), and "English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics" (2008). Forthcoming is a book on the cultures of Human Rights and another on new media.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.4.2012 |
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Verlagsort | Chicester |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4443-3865-X / 144433865X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4443-3865-2 / 9781444338652 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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