Amit Ray

Negotiating the Modern (eBook, ePUB)

Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the varying fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. The rhetorical constructions of East and West deployed by both colonizer and colonized, as well as attempts to synthesize or transcend such constructions, became crucial to conceptions of the 'modern'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135866051
• Artikelnr.: 45099078

Autorenporträt

Amit Ray is Assistant Professor of Literature at Rochester Institute of Technology. His recent work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities, The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas and the collection, Romantic Orientalism, edited by Michael J. Franklin.

Inhaltsangabe

1. After Empire: British Orientalism in Decline 2. Orientalism, Antiquity
and the Beginnings of British Colonial Rule in India: The Textual Basis of
Early Orientalism-Hastings, Jones, Mill 3. Orienalism, Vedanta and Indian
Modernity: Raja Rammohan Ray on Sanskritic Antiquity 4. Colonial Divides
and Shared Orientalisms: Kipling and Tagore in the World 5. Modernist
Orientalism and Empathetic Subjectivity: Mrs. Dalloway and the Discontents
of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index