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Book Summary
"Effeminism" charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers
in India. Working on the assumption that desire is intensely political,
historically constituted, and materially determined, the book shows how the
inscriptions of masculinity in the fictions of Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard
Kipling, and E. M. Forster are deeply implicated in the politics of colonial
rule and anticolonial resistance. At the same time, the study refrains from
representing colonialism as a coherent set of public events, policies, and
practices whose social, political, and cultural meanings are self-evident.
Instead, by tracing the resistant and unassailable modes of masculine desire in
colonial fiction, the study insists on
- ISBN-13
- 9780472109753
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Hard Bound
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Publishing Date
- 1999-03-01
- Total Pages
- 208
Effeminism: The Economy Of Colonial Desire
by Revathi Krishnaswamy (Author),
University of Michigan Press (Publisher)
fictionfantasyyoung adultaward winning
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Book Summary
"Effeminism" charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers
in India. Working on the assumption that desire is intensely political,
historically constituted, and materially determined, the book shows how the
inscriptions of masculinity in the fictions of Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard
Kipling, and E. M. Forster are deeply implicated in the politics of colonial
rule and anticolonial resistance. At the same time, the study refrains from
representing colonialism as a coherent set of public events, policies, and
practices whose social, political, and cultural meanings are self-evident.
Instead, by tracing the resistant and unassailable modes of masculine desire in
colonial fiction, the study insists on
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9780472109753
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Hard Bound
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Publishing Date
- 1999-03-01
- Total Pages
- 208