Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue /

Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue / / Yumna Siddiqi.

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Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives...

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Siddiqi, Yumna,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue
  • 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House
  • 3. Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire"
  • 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency
  • 5. Intermezzo
  • 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason
  • 7. "Deep in Blood"
  • 8. "The Unhistorical Dead"
  • Conclusion "Power Smashes Into Private Lives"
  • Notes
  • Index

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