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.
Colonies in literature
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Human body in literature
Literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Literary style
South Asia > In literature.
Asie méridionale > Dans la littérature.
South Asia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sumario: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 through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self-reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored,
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 377 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821443347
0821443348

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