Space, utopia and Indian decolonization : literary pre-figurations of the postcolony /
The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. Focusing on the literary field of South Asia between, largely, the 1860s and...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2019.
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| 丛编: | Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2090170 |
书本目录:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the use of Bengali, Hindi, and Sanskrit; List of figures; Introduction: spatial desire in the age of empire; 1 Of good and evil: the anxiety of utopianism; 2 Tales of a city: writing colonial Calcutta; 3 That magnificent song: between the performative and the pedagogic; 4 A sense of place: narrating knowable communities; Epilogue: that im/possible spatial desire called decolonization; Appendix: Jana Gana Mana by Rabindranath Tagore; Bibliography; Index