Indian Traffic - Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India

"Fresh and insightful. . . . Roy introduces readers and literary critics to nonliterary examples including religious mentoring and discipleship, public figures, and Bombay movie stars and their films. This is the most exciting and interesting book I have read in the field for some time."—Caren Kaplan, author of Questions of Travel

About the author

Parama Roy is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

Summary

Explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for westernized subjects, but across a range of identities. This book considers the Englishman's fascination with 'going native', an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, and Gandhi's impersonation of femininity.

Product details

• Authors: Parama Roy, Roy Parama
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.1998
• EAN: 9780520204874
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20487-4
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology