Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947 Tapa blanda - 1999

Good condition with sunned spine and cover, minor shelfwear. Page edges slightly marked in places. Unmarked copy with tight binding. Literature/Colonial Studies/Gender Studies"Paxton has written a book whose rich hybridity and interdisciplinary crossingsecho and extend the goals of postcolonial theory."-JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE, University of Southern CaliforniaWriting under the Raj is the first study to challenge the long-held criticalassumption that the rape of colonizing women by colonized men was the first,or the only, rape script in British colonial literature. Nancy Paxton asks whyrape disappears in British literature about English domestic life in the 1790sand charts its reappearance in British literature about India written between1830 and 1947. She then documents the reemergence of representations of rapein literature about English life in the 1890s and shows how rape themes weresuppressed by the emergence of British modernism. In her examination ofnovels such as Kipling's Kim and Forster's A… Leer más

Rutgers University Press, 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780813526010

Rutgers University Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Rutgers University Press. paperback. Like New. 6x1x9.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.