Acknowledgments.--1. The rhetoric of English India.--2. Edmund Burke and the Indian sublime.--3. Reading the trial of Warren Hastings.--4. The feminine picturesque.--5. The adolescence of Kim.--6. Foster's imperial erotic.--7. Naipaul's arrival.-- 8. Salman Rushdie: Embodiments of blasphemy, censorships of shame.--Notes.--Index
Summary
"Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority."--pub. desc
Analysis
English literature Criticism
India
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index
