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Narrating Cultural Encounter: Representations of India by Select Enlightenment Women Writers

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This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse.

Though British women enjoyed their privileged racial status as the utilisers of colonial riches, they articulated their voice of dissent when they faced the politics of subordination in their own society and identified them with the marginalised status of the colonised Indians. This brings out the complicity and critique of the colonial discourse of British women writers and foregrounds their ambivalent responses to the colonial project.

This book provides detailed textual analysis of the works of Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Lady Morgan, Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay through critical insights from the idea of the Enlightenment, postcolonial theory and feminist thought. It also foregrounds new perspectives to colonial discourse vis-à-vis the representation of India by locating the dialogic strain within the British narratives about India.


Request Code : ZLIBIO3084726
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
Routledge
Language:
English
Pages:
208
ISBN 10:
0367714582
ISBN 13:
9780367714581
ISBN:
0367714582,9780367714581
Series:
Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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