Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about Indian in English, 1765-2000

ISBN-13: 9780195150179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str.

Margery Sabin

Opis

Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies.

Recenzje

Sabin's engagement with her unusual subject is always meticulous and intelligent; and welcome too, given that it focuses on a nation and a class whose intelligentsia takes itself so seriously.