The Rhetoric of English IndiaTracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority. "A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."—Jean Sudrann, Choice |
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aesthetic allegory allows ambivalence Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian narrative Anglo-Indian woman Area of Darkness articulate attempt Aziz beauty becomes Begums British Burke Burke's caste catalog caves chronology claims colo colonial colonial encounter complicity context critical crucial cultural desire discourse E. M. Forster Edmund Burke embodiment empire English India Enigma of Arrival erotic female feminine fiction figure Forster's function further Gibreel Hastings trial homoeroticism idiom imagination impeachment imperial implies Indian subcontinent interpretation intimacy Islam Kim's Kipling Kipling's lama lama's language literal literary Marabar metaphor Midnight's Children misreading Muslim narrator nation novel obsession Orientalist paradigm Parks's Passage to India picturesque Pizarro plot political postcolonial psychic question race reader reading representation represents rhetoric Rushdie Rushdie's Saladin Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses sexual Shame Sheridan signifies story structure sublime suggests symbolic tale terror text's tion translates trope tropology Tytler's V. S. Naipaul Warren Hastings women writing zenana