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Imperialism as Diaspora: Race, Sexuality, and History in Anglo-India (Liverpool University Press - Postcolonialism Across Disciplines)
Ralph Crane
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Hardcover. Imperialism as Diaspora reassesses the important years of the British Raj in India and the diasporic position of Anglo-Indians, who, while neither quite British nor Indian, were simultaneously both, and who were instrumental in the construction of the Empire in India. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Such postcolonial interpretations that focus on single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—during the Raj. Imperialism as Diaspora reconsiders the urgencies, governing principles, and modes of being of the Anglo-Indians by approaching Britain’s imperial relationship with India from new, interdisciplinary directions. Moving freely between the disciplines of literature, history, and art this ... Read more
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Such postcolonial interpretations that focus on single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—during the Raj. Imperialism as Diaspora reconsiders the urgencies, governing principles, and modes of being of the Anglo-Indians by approaching Britain’s imperial relationship with India from new, interdisciplinary directions. Moving freely between the disciplines of literature, history, and art this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318962
SKU
V9781846318962
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About Ralph Crane
Ralph Crane is Professor of English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Radhika Mohanram is Professor of English and in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.
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