Indian Traffic

Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India

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Parama Roy

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The continual, unpredictable and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources - religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films - making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or "westernized" subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with "going native," an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress's emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the "muscular Hinduism" of Swami Vivekananda. This book aims to demonstrate that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the conceptual identity of South Asian postcolonial theory itself.

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Parama Roy is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

Release date NZ

September 6th, 1998

Author

Parama Roy

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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3 b-w illustrations

Pages

237

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780520204874

Product ID

7578831

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