000			01793cam a2200313 a 4500
008			070220s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780231138086
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPR861 _bS568 A 2008
100	1		_aSiddiqi, Yumna. _9215047
245	1	0	_aAnxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / _cYumna Siddiqi.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c2008.
300			_a290 p.
505	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.
505	0		_aHKBU library
518			_aYT2025 M08
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _xSouth Asian authors _xHistory and criticism. _9215048
650		0	_aIntrigue in literature. _9215049
650		0	_aEspionage in literature. _9215050
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century. _9199046
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century. _9215051
650		0	_aImperialism in literature. _9124695
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _9124696
650		0	_aAnxiety in literature. _9215052
900			_a= C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
999			_c110755 _d110755