Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire /

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Effeminism charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Working on the assumption that desire is intensely political, historically constituted, and materially determined, the book shows how the inscriptions of masculinity in the fictions of Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
Politics and government
English literature
Englisch
Geschlecht > Motiv
Indienbild
Geschlechterrolle
Kolonialliteratur
Masculinities.
Gender studies.
India > Politics and government > 1765-1947.
India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947.
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1765-1947.
Inde > Histoire > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
India
Großbritannien
Indien
Electronic books.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reading colonial erotics
  • The economy of colonial desire
  • Manufacturing masculinity
  • Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters
  • Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim
  • A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. Forster's Passage to India.

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