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Out of bounds : Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement /

Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces--jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs--played in the literary and social production of British India. Author Alan Johnson illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological under...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Alan G. (Alan Gerhard) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011.
Colección:Project Muse philosophy and religion collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Colonial Space, Anglo-Indian Perspectives
  • Chapter 1. "I Want to Send India to England": The Aesthetics of Landscape and the Colonial Home
  • Chapter 2. Hills Kinder Than Plains? Kipling's Monstrous Hill Station
  • Chapter 3. "Out of Bounds": Clubs, Cantonments, Plains
  • Chapter 4. Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity
  • Chapter 5. Medical Topography in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters
  • Chapter 6. The Engineers2 Revenge, the Age of Kali: Kipling's Bridges and the End of Jungles
  • Chapter 7. Man-Eaters of Kumaon and Jim Corbett's Jungle Idiom
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index.