| Physical description |
1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire" : the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo : postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood" : Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead" : violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion : "power smashes into private lives" : cultural politics in the new Empire. |
| Summary |
Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives of intrigue to endorse imperial rule, postcolonial writers turn the generic conventions and topography of the fiction of intrigue on its head, launching a critique of imperial power that makes the repressive and emancipatory impulses of postcolonial modernity visible. Siddiqi devotes. |
| Language notes |
English. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism.
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Intrigue in literature.
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Espionage in literature.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Anxiety in literature.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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History |
| ISBN |
9780231510868 (electronic bk.) |
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0231510861 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231138086 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0231138083 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780231138093 (pbk.) |
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0231138091 (pbk.) |
| Standard Number |
10.7312/sidd13808 |
| Publisher Number |
EB00639493 Recorded Books |
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