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Masks of conquest : literary study and British rule in India /
A work in postcolonial studies, this text describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. The text a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford India paperbacks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A work in postcolonial studies, this text describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. The text also argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission. |
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| Notas: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1989. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231539579 0231539576 0231171692 9780231171694 |