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

Informationen zum Autor Anjali Arondekar Klappentext "This engaging and inventive book is not a typical critique of the colonial archive: it depends on the colonial record even as it exposes its limits. This is a crisp and intelligent study that provides both an accounting of the traces of sexuality in colonial India and an excursus on the writing of such a history."--Mrinalini Sinha, author of" Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire" Zusammenfassung A study of the colonial state's imposition of regimes of sexuality! as seen through archives of law! literature and pornography. 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, Anjali R. Arondekar
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780822345336
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4533-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories