English Writing and India, 1600-1920 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.

English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Literature & Fiction

K. Nayar, Pramod

British & Irish

Routledge

Frantz Fanon (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an apology for violence. This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon’s key texts and theories, looking at:    Postcolonial theory’s appropriation of psychoanalysis   Anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness   Postcoloniality’s relationship with violence and separatism   New humanism and ideas of community.   Introducing the work of this controversial theorist, Pramod K. Nayar also offers alternative readings, charting Fanon’s influence on postcolonial studies, literary criticism and cultural studies.

History & Criticism

Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an apology for violence. This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon’s key texts and theories, looking at: <ul>
<li>Postcolonial theory’s appropriation of psychoanalysis</li> <li>Anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness</li> <li>Postcoloniality’s relationship with violence and separatism</li> <li>New humanism and ideas of community. </li> </ul>
Introducing the work of this controversial theorist, Pramod K. Nayar also offers alternative readings, charting Fanon’s influence on postcolonial studies, literary criticism and cultural studies.

The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern

The Transnational in English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be examined through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions and cultures. The first book to look at the entirety of English literature through a transnational lens, Pramod Nayar: <ul>
<li>Maps the discourses that constitute the global in every age, from the Early Modern to the twentieth century</li> <li>Offers readings of representative texts in poetry, fiction, essay and drama, covering a variety of genres such as Early Modern tragedy, the adventure novel, the narrative poem, Gothic and utopian fiction</li> <li>Examines major authors including Shakespeare, Defoe, Behn, Swift, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Doyle, Ballantyne, Orwell, Conrad, Kipling, Forster</li> <li>Looks at themes such as travel and discovery, exoticism, mercantilism, commodities, the civilisational mission and the multiculturalization of England.</li>
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Useful for students and academics alike this book offers a comprehensive survey of the English canon questioning and analysing the transnational and global engagements of English literature.

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English Writing and India, 1600u1920

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English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Frantz Fanon (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Frantz Fanon (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern

The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern

English Writing and India, 1600u1920