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Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / Yumna Siddiqi.
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TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.Description: 290 pISBN: - 9780231138086
- 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
English Books
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | PR861 S568 A 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000376214 |
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
YT2025 M08
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