The Rhetoric of English India

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University of Chicago Press, 1992 - 230 pages
Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority.

"A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."—Jean Sudrann, Choice
 

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1 The Rhetoric of English India
1
2 Edmund Burke and the Indian Sublime
24
3 Reading the Trial of Warren Hastings
49
4 The Feminine Picturesque
75
5 The Adolescence of Kim
111
6 Forsters Imperial Erotic
132
7 Naipauls Arrival
149
Embodiments of Blasphemy Censorships of Shame
174
Notes
207
Index
221
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Sara Suleri Goodyear (1953-2022), born Sara Suleri, was professor emeritus of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching included Romantic and Victorian poetry, postcolonial literature and theory, and contemporary cultural criticism. She was a founding editor of the Yale Journal of Criticism and served on the editorial boards of that journal as well as The Yale Review and Transition.

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