Masks of Conquest reveals how English studies introduced in India under British rule came to be an effective form of political control abetting voluntary cultural assimilation. The author argues that the literary text functioned as a mirror of the ideal Englishman and became a mask of exploitation that camouflaged the material activities of the colonizing British government.
Masks of Conquest reveals how English studies introduced in India under British rule came to be an effective form of political control abetting volunt...
In recent years, as the centrality of race and gender has been established in literary studies, class has often been seen as a crude and reductionist concept. For this volume, the editors have commissioned essays arguing for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class.
In recent years, as the centrality of race and gender has been established in literary studies, class has often been seen as a crude and reductionist ...