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1 online resource (xi, 377 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child-agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E.M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self-reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored, |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Literary style.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. |
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Literary style. |
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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 -- Literary style.
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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. |
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Rushdie, Salman -- Literary style.
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Rushdie, Salman. |
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Literary style. |
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Forster, E. M., 1879-1970 (Forster, Edward Morgan) -- Literary style. |
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Rushdie, Salman -- Literary style. |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth fiction (English) |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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South Asia -- In literature.
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South Asia. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9780821443347 (electronic book) |
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0821443348 (electronic book) |
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9780821418802 (alkaline paper) |
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9780821418819 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0821418807 |
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0821418815 |
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