Masks of Conquest : Literary Study and British Rule in India

Viswanathan, Gauri

ISBN 10: 0231171692 / ISBN 13: 9780231171694

Editore: Columbia University Press, 2014

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• Titolo: Masks of Conquest : Literary Study and British Rule in India
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0231171692
• ISBN 13: 9780231171694
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: quinta edizione o successive
• Condizione: New

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A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission.

Informazioni sull?autore

Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is also the author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief, which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, the James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of America, and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. She coedits the series South Asia Across the Disciplines, published jointly by the university presses of Columbia, Chicago, and California.