Writing India, 1757-1990 : the literature of British India

Edited By Bart Moore-gilbert. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Writing India, reorienting colonial discourse analysis. 'The Fearful Name of the Black Hole': fashioning an imperial myth. Towards an Anglo-Indian Poetry? The colonial muse in the writings of John Leyden, Thomas Medwin and Charles D'Oyly. Meadows Taylor's "Confessions of a Thug": the Anglo-Indian novel as a genre in the making. 'The Bhabhal of Tongues': reading Kipling, reading Bhabha. Secrets of the colonial harem: gender, sexuality, and the law in Kipling's novels. Married to the empire: the Anglo-Indian domestic novel. Volatile desire - ambivalence and distress in Forster's colonial narratives. "I am your Mother and your Father" - Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet" and the dissolution of imperial identity. Salman Rushdie - from colonial politics to postmodern poetics. This volume provides an analytic survey of the literature produced as a consequence of the long history of Britain's rule in India. It stretches from the establishment of British hegemony in the 1750s to the achievement of Indian independence in the postcolonial era almost two centuries later.--back cover An analytic survey of the literature produced as a consequence of Britain's rule in India. The essays look at changing attitudes towards India in relation to the British Empire, revealing the complex and ambiguous relation between colonizer and colonized. http://archive.org/details/writingindia175700moor