Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /
Yumna Siddiqi.
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.
- 290 p.
Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire. HKBU library
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English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century English fiction--South Asian authors--History and criticism. Intrigue in literature. Espionage in literature. Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century. Literature and society--History--Great Britain--20th century. Imperialism in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Anxiety in literature.