Siddiqi, Yumna. creator text bibliography nyu New York Columbia University Press 2008 monographic eng

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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 Yumna Siddiqi. YT2025 M08 English fiction 19th century History and criticism English fiction 20th century History and criticism English fiction South Asian authors History and criticism Intrigue in literature Espionage in literature Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century Literature and society Great Britain History 20th century Imperialism in literature Postcolonialism in literature Anxiety in literature PR861 S568 A 2008 9780231138086 SDU 070220