For the Record - On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India

Informationen zum Autor Anjali Arondekar Klappentext A study of the colonial state's imposition of regimes of sexuality, as seen through archives of law, literature and pornography. Zusammenfassung Considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely! what kind of 'archive' does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction. Without a Trace 1 1. A Secret Report: Richard Burton's Colonial Anthropology 27 2. Subject to Sodomy: The Case of Colonial India 67 3. Archival Attachments: The Story of an India-Rubber Dildo 97 4. In the Wake of 1857: Rudyard Kipling's Mutiny Papers 131 Coda. Passing Returns 171 Bibliography 181 Index 205

Product details

• Authors: Anjali Arondekar
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780822345152
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4515-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous