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Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization : Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780429686405
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Space, Utopia and Indian DecolonizationLOC classification:
  • PK5407 .B36 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the use of Bengali, Hindi, and Sanskrit -- List of figures -- Introduction: spatial desire in the age of empire -- 1 Of good and evil: the anxiety of utopianism -- 2 Tales of a city: writing colonial Calcutta -- 3 That magnificent song: between the performative and the pedagogic -- 4 A sense of place: narrating knowable communities -- Epilogue: that im/possible spatial desire called decolonization -- Appendix: Jana Gana Mana by Rabindranath Tagore -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the use of Bengali, Hindi, and Sanskrit -- List of figures -- Introduction: spatial desire in the age of empire -- 1 Of good and evil: the anxiety of utopianism -- 2 Tales of a city: writing colonial Calcutta -- 3 That magnificent song: between the performative and the pedagogic -- 4 A sense of place: narrating knowable communities -- Epilogue: that im/possible spatial desire called decolonization -- Appendix: Jana Gana Mana by Rabindranath Tagore -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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