01965cam a2200325 a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059050002300067100002800090245007000118260005000188300001100238505062500249505001700874518001500891650005800906650005800964650007301022650003601095650003701131650007401168650007401242650003901316650004301355650003501398900001401433942001301447999001901460952016001479070220s2008    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a9780231138086  aSDU00aPR861bS568 A 20081 aSiddiqi, Yumna.921504710aAnxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /cYumna Siddiqi.  aNew York :bColumbia University Press,c2008.  a290 p.0 aColonial 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.0 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M08 0aEnglish fictiony19th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish fictiony20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish fictionxSouth Asian authorsxHistory and criticism.9215048 0aIntrigue in literature.9215049 0aEspionage in literature.9215050 0aLiterature and societyzGreat BritainxHistoryy19th century.9199046 0aLiterature and societyzGreat BritainxHistoryy20th century.9215051 0aImperialism in literature.9124695 0aPostcolonialism in literature.9124696 0aAnxiety in literature.9215052  a= C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c110755d110755  00102lcc406PR0861 S568 A2008708CGB9279552aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-08-27e2l0oPR861 S568 A 2008p1000376214r2025-08-27 00:00:00tC.1w2025-08-27yGBE