Politics of the possible : essays on gender, history, narratives, colonial English

The essays in this volume speak of diverse narratives- Indian, British, American, Latin American- with a broad emphasis on forms, ideologies, class relations. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1 Politics Of The Possible: Or The Perils Of Reclassification 1 -- 2 Of Ladies, Gentlemen, And The Short-cut: Or Choosing -- Unfreedom 29 -- 3 Not Knowing, But Only Guessing: A Modernist -- Resolution 56 -- 4 Figures For The 'unconscious': The Pressures On -- Description 74 -- 5 Relating Histories 96 -- A Dialectic Of Reform And Preservation: Sanskrit -- And Hindu Women 98 -- Literature, Female Literacy, Colonial English: -- An Interface 124 -- The Gender Of Ignorance And Altruism: -- English Women And Empire 163 -- 6 Women Against Women 184 -- Mirroring Trajectories: The Fortunes Of English, -- The Logics Of Class 188 -- Diverse Faiths, Shared Customs, Composite Beliefs 231 -- The Prism Of Caste: Chhabili Bhatiyari 247 -- 7 The 'amenities Of Domestic Life' 279 -- 'on Our Work There Is No Blessing': Questions -- On Labour 282 -- The Servitude Of Love And The Science Of Denial 305 -- The Promise And Retreat Of Conjugality: -- Widows And Prostitutes 350 -- 8 Consent, Agency, And Rhetorics Of Incitement 364 -- In Indirect Ways 366 -- Boons, Entitlements, Obligations: -- Kaikeyi And Manthara 384 -- Under Institutional Sanction: The Discourse -- Of Violence 397. Kumkum Sangari. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [410]-489) And Index.