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040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a820.9954 _bR812i
100			_aRoy, Parama
245			_aIndian traffic _bidentities in question in colonial and postcolonial India _cParama Roy
260			_bUniversity of California Press _c1998 _aBerkeley
300			_avii, 236p
520			_aThe continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources―religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films―making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or "westernized" subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with "going native," an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress's emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the "muscular Hinduism" of Swami Vivekananda. Indian Traffic demonstrates that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the nationalist discourses of South Asia and are central to the conceptual identity of South Asian postcolonial theory itself. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
650			_aIndic literature (English) -- History and criticism
650			_aGroup identity in literature
650			_aImperialism in literature
942			_cBK
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