This volume provides an analytic survey of the literature produced as a consequence of the long history of Britain's rule in India. From Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster to Salman Rushdie, each essay looks at changing attitudes towards India in relation to the British Empire. The mix of "popular" and "high" culture reveals the complex and ambiguous relation between colonizer and colonized over almost two hundred and fifty years.
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This review is from: Writing India 1757-1990: The Literature of British India (Hardcover)
Published in 1996 this book addresses issues first raised with the book which initiated postcolonial theory, Edward Said's Orientalism. While challenging some of Saids methods and conclusions Bart Moore-Gilbert and his colleagues present a much more focused and nuanced approach to postcolonial theory.As Moore-Gilbert writes in the introductory essay: For too long now, colonial discourse analysis, as derived from Orientalism,has assumed that identical regimes of power and knowledge organised both the political management of empire and all the varied literature which represented it. Writing India thus practices postcolonial theory("informed by questions of gender, sexuality, and psychic effect in colonial relations") and presents an ongoing critique of it concurrently. The nine essay include analysis of work by following authors: Kipling, Forster, Scott,as well as material from eighteenth century and Romantic period and the writng of British women on India. It concludes with a chapter on Salman Rushdie "to suggest the complex relation of continuity as well as conflict between colonial and postcolonial constructions of India". Also in 1997 Moore-Gilbert published a concisely written study of the three main postcolonial theorists (Said, Spivak, Bhabha)along with a detailed analysis of the criticism of their work called Postcolonial Theory, Contexts, Practices, Politics.
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