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Indian angles : English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore /
In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Series in Victorian Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson recreates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India-writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities. Advancing new theoretical and historical paradig. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (309-324) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821443583 0821443585 |