Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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Contents |
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947; Copyright; Contents; A Note on Orthography and Chronology; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Empire and Exception-The 'Black Hole' of Calcutta; 1 The Highlands of Orissa: Ritual Terror and Reform in Colonial India; 2 The Bibighar: Mourning the 1857 Rebellion; 3 The Angel of Cawnpore: Remembering the 1857 Rebellion; 4 The Hostel in Highgate: Revolutionary Nationalism and Colonial Counter-Terrorism; 5 Jallianwala Bagh: Gandhi, Terrorism and Non-Violence; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the 'Black Hole' of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 Rebellion, anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London and the Amritsar massacre in 1919, this timely book reveals how the terrorizing threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between colonizer and colonized. Based on original research and drawing on |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Indic literature (English) -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- India -- History -- 19th century
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Politics and literature -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Terrorism in literature.
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Insurgency in literature.
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Indic literature (English)
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Insurgency in literature
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Politics and literature
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Terrorism in literature
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India
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780203584828 |
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0203584821 |
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