Allegories of Empire : The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text.

By: Sharpe, JennyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816684281Subject(s): Colonies in literature | English fiction -- History and criticism | Imperialism in literature | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- ColoniesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Allegories of Empire : The Figure of Woman in the Colonial TextDDC classification: 305.4 | 823.009/352042 LOC classification: PR830.W6 -- S5 1993ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Neocolonial Conditions of Reading -- Feminism and a Colonial Scene of Writing -- Subaltern Forms of Knowledge -- Wild Anthropology -- 2. The Rise of Women in an Age of Progress -- Fictions of Female Authority -- Slave as Emancipator -- Sati as Feminine Ideal -- 3. The Civilizing Mission Disfigured -- The Truth-Effects of Fiction -- Judith of Cawnpore -- The Rani of Jhansi -- 4. The Rise of Memsahibs in an Age of Empire: On the Face of the Waters -- New Woman in the Colonial Text -- Reading for Feminist Plots -- The Subject of Sati -- 5. The Unspeakable Limits of Civility: A Passage to India -- The Indeterminacies of Rape -- Other Plottings, Stories Not Told -- 6. The Ruins of Time: The Jewel in the Crown -- The Raj Nostalgia Mode -- To Speak Allegorically, to Speak of Rape Otherwise -- A Return to the "House of the Ladies -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Neocolonial Conditions of Reading -- Feminism and a Colonial Scene of Writing -- Subaltern Forms of Knowledge -- Wild Anthropology -- 2. The Rise of Women in an Age of Progress -- Fictions of Female Authority -- Slave as Emancipator -- Sati as Feminine Ideal -- 3. The Civilizing Mission Disfigured -- The Truth-Effects of Fiction -- Judith of Cawnpore -- The Rani of Jhansi -- 4. The Rise of Memsahibs in an Age of Empire: On the Face of the Waters -- New Woman in the Colonial Text -- Reading for Feminist Plots -- The Subject of Sati -- 5. The Unspeakable Limits of Civility: A Passage to India -- The Indeterminacies of Rape -- Other Plottings, Stories Not Told -- 6. The Ruins of Time: The Jewel in the Crown -- The Raj Nostalgia Mode -- To Speak Allegorically, to Speak of Rape Otherwise -- A Return to the "House of the Ladies -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

Brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction.

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