Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

ISBN-13: 9780415877152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Alex Tickell

Opis

This is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. It argues that exceptional violence was integral to colonial sovereignty and that the threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between coloniser and colonised.

Spis treści

Introduction: Empire and Exception: The ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta  1. The Highlands of Orissa: Ritual Terror and Reform in Colonial India  2. The Bibighar: Mourning the 1857 Rebellion  3. The Angel of Cawnpore: Remembering the 1857 Rebellion  4. The Hostel in Highgate: Revolutionary Nationalism and Colonial Counter-Terrorism  5. Jallianwala Bagh: Gandhi, Terrorism and Non-Violence  Index

O autorze

Alex Tickell is Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK, and Director of the OU’s Postcolonial Literatures Research Group. He specializes in South-Asian literatures in English and has published widely on nineteenth-century colonial fiction, early writing in English by Indian authors, and contemporary fiction from the subcontinent. His publications include Selections from ‘Bengaliana’, Alternative Indias edited with Peter Morey and a readers’ guide to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Routledge, 2007).