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Colonial Voices
Pramod K. Nayar
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves. * An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populations * Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues * Surveys 400 years of India's history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire * Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences
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"Nayar makes the field of 'colonial discourse studies' irresistible to anyone seeking to explore the complex relationship between textual production, (South) Asian Orientalism, and the politics of empire building."
- Walter S. H. Lim, National University of Singapore
"Drawing on an enormous range of writing, Dr. Nayar provides a lucid and nuanced analysis of British representations of India as a continent to be discovered, controlled, 'civilized', and incorporated. This important book by one of India's leading scholars gives students and scholars a significantly new understanding of the complex nature and history of colonial discourse regarding India."
- C.L.Innes, University of Kent
"A theoretical and historical perspective on colonial discourse...an impressive demonstration of the nature and power of discourse using an array of texts from the archive of British India."
- Nandana Dutta, Gauahati University
Kundenbewertungen
Asian & Australasian History, Geschichte / Asien u. Australasien, Theorie der Postkolonialzeit, Literature, History, Colonialism & Imperialism, Kolonialismus u. Imperialismus, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Postcolonial Theory, Literatur, Literaturwissenschaft, Political Science