| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 377 pages) |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Unspeakable Body of the Tale; 1: Children of an Other Language: Kipling's Stories as Interracial Progeny; 2: The Doubleness of Writing (in) Kim, or, The Art of Empire; 3: Forster's Crisis: The Intractable Body and Two Passages to India, 1910-22; 4: At the Mouth of the Caves: A Passage to India and the Language of Re-vision; 5: From a Full Stop to a Language: Rushdie's Bodily Idiom; 6: When Truth Is WhatIt Is Told to Be: Rushdie's Storytelling, Dreams, and Endings; Epilogue: The Body as the Basis for Literary Agency: South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean |
| Summary |
Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child-agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E.M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self-reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Literary style
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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 -- Literary style
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Rushdie, Salman -- Literary style
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| SUBJECT |
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 fast |
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 fast |
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Rushdie, Salman fast |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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Human body in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Colonies in literature
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Commonwealth fiction (English)
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Human body in literature
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Literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Literary style
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- In literature
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| Subject |
South Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009005524 |
| ISBN |
9780821443347 |
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0821443348 |
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