Colonial India in Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415886369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 214 str.

Supriya Goswami

Opis

This is a book-length study which explores the intersections of children's literature and defines historical moments in colonial India. Goswami proposes that British, Anglo-Indian, and Bengali children's literature respond to five key historical events.

Spis treści

Introduction: Children's Literature and Colonial India  1. (En)countering Conversion: Missionary Debates and Colonial Policy in Mary Sherwood's The History of Little Henry and his Bearer  2. Resisting Tipu: Taming the Tiger and Coming of Age in Barbara Hofland's The Captives in India  3. The Post-Mutiny Imperial Boy Hero: Bridging Cultural Divides in Sara Jeanette Duncan's The Story of Sonny Sahib  4. 'Macaulay's minutemen': The Mimic Men and the Subversion of Law in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books  5. Trivializing Empire: The Topsy-Turvy World of Upendrakishore Ray and Sukumar Ray  6. Conclusion: The Postcolonial Legacy

O autorze

Supriya Goswami is Adjunct Professor of English at George Washington University, USA.