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Effeminism : the economy of colonial desire / Revathi Krishnaswamy.
Author
Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
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vi, 191 pages ; 24 cm
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DS479 .K75 1998
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Subject(s)
English literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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English literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Masculinity in literature
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India
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History
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British occupation, 1765-1947
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India
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Politics and government
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1765-1947
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Summary note
This book attempts to chart the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Arguing that the Indo-British colonial encounter is based on an ideological opposition between masculinity and effeminacy, rather than on a more conventional distinction between masculinity and femininity, the book investigates masculinity as an overdetermined site on which the multiple axes of domination and subordination are simultaneously constituted and contested. Uncovering an intricate nexus among race, caste, class, gender, sexuality, nation, moral legitimacy and economic/political power - a nexus designated by the term effeminism - the study establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire.
This book will interest not only scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and colonial and postcolonial literatures, but also those working in the areas of cultural studies, gender studies, and South Asian studies.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-188) and index.
Contents
Reading colonial erotics
The economy of colonial desire
Manufacturing masculinity
Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's on the face of the waters
Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim
A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. Forster's a passage to India.
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ISBN
0472109758 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780472109753 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
98025517
OCLC
39633997
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