Effeminism : the economy of colonial desire / Revathi Krishnaswamy.

Author
Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Description
vi, 191 pages ; 24 cm

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    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 0472109758 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780472109753 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    98025517
    OCLC
    39633997
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