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Indian Angles

Gibson, Mary Ellis:
Indian angles : English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / Mary Ellis Gibson. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011. - ca. 344 S.
ISBN 978-0-8214-1941-0
US$ 39,95 (Hardcover)
DDC: 821.009954

Beschreibung
In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson recreates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities.
   Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by non-elite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial theory, her work also provides new ways of thinking about British internal colonialism as its results were exported to South Asia.
   In lucid and accessible prose, Gibson presents a new theoretical approach to colonial and postcolonial literatures. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Illustrations. ix
Acknowledgments. xi
A Note on Names. xv
Introduction. 1
PART 1: LANGUAGES, TROPES, AND LANDSCAPE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE POETRY
1. Contact Poetics in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta
Sir William Jones, Sir John Horsford, and Anna Maria. 17
2. Bards and Sybils
Landscape, Gender, and the Culture of Dispute in the Poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts. 63
PART 2: THE INSTITUTIONS OF COLONIAL MIMESIS, 1830-57
3. Books, Reading, and the Profession of Letters
David Lester Richardson and the Construction of a British Canon in India. 101
4. Sighing, or Not, for Albion
Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore. 137
PART 3: NATIONALISMS, RELIGION, AND AESTHETICISM IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
5. From Christian Piety to Cosmopolitan Nationalisms
The Dutt Family Album and the Poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt. 181
6. Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Aestheticism in Fin-de-Siècle London
Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore. 227
Epilogue. 268
Notes. 281
Bibliography. 309
Index. 325.

Autorin

MARY ELLIS GIBSON is the Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her books include History and the Prism of Art: Browning’s Poetic Experiments and Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. She has also edited several other anthologies, including New Stories by Southern Women, Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers, and Critical Essays on Robert Browning. Profile page.

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