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Effeminism: The Economy Of Colonial Desire
by Revathi Krishnaswamy (Author),
University of Michigan Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
"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