Making words matter : the agency of colonial and postcolonial literature /

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Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child-agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E.M. Forster evoke throu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hai, Ambreen, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2009.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936 > Literary style.
Forster, E. M. > (Edward Morgan), > 1879-1970 > Literary style.
Rushdie, Salman > Literary style.
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936 > Literary style > Literary style > Literary style.
Forster, E. M., > 1879-1970 > (Forster, Edward Morgan) > Literary style > Literary style > Literary style.
Rushdie, Salman > Literary style > Literary style > Literary style.
Forster, E. M. > (Edward Morgan), > 1879-1970.
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936.
Rushdie, Salman.
Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Roman du Commonwealth (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Literature.
Literary style.
South Asia > In literature.
South Asia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Unspeakable Body of the Tale; 1: Children of an Other Language: Kipling's Stories as Interracial Progeny; 2: The Doubleness of Writing (in) Kim, or, The Art of Empire; 3: Forster's Crisis: The Intractable Body and Two Passages to India, 1910-22; 4: At the Mouth of the Caves: A Passage to India and the Language of Re-vision; 5: From a Full Stop to a Language: Rushdie's Bodily Idiom; 6: When Truth Is WhatIt Is Told to Be: Rushdie's Storytelling, Dreams, and Endings; Epilogue: The Body as the Basis for Literary Agency: South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean

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