Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / Yumna Siddiqi.

Author/creator Siddiqi, Yumna
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
English fiction--South Asian authors. --History and criticism.
Intrigue in literature.
Espionage in literature.
Literature and society--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Anxiety in literature.

Contents Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index.
LCCN 2007006785
ISBN9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231138083 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231138093 (pbk.)
ISBN0231138091 (pbk.)
ISBN9780231510868 (electronic)
ISBN0231510861 (electronic)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 861 .S53 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold