Dissenters and Mavericks - Writings About India in English, 1765-2000

Zusatztext Sabin's engagement with her unusual subject is always meticulous and intelligent; and welcome too, given that it focuses on a nation and a class whose intelligentsia takes itself so seriously. Klappentext Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature! history! and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back! to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri! V.S. Naipaul! and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies. Zusammenfassung This study reinstates the author at the centre of the relationship between literature and history. It explores the tension between "discourse analysis" and literary criticism, then discusses writers who have achieved a measure of freedom from the limitations of their historical moments.

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• Authors: Margery Sabin, Margery (Lorraine Chiu Wang Professor of En Sabin, Margery (Lorraine Chiu Wang Professor of English Sabin, Sabin Margery
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780195150179
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515017-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, English, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, C 1700 To C 1800, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Asia / South / India