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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anjali Arondekar, Anjali R. Arondekar
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780822345336
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4533-6
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata