The Audacious Raconteur : Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India /

"The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"--

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Autor Principal: Prasad, Leela (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "An Acre of Ground"
  • The Ruse of Colonial Modernity : Anna Liberata de Souza
  • The History of the English Empire as a Fall : P.V. Ramaswami Raju
  • The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami
  • The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. Natesa Sastri
  • Conclusion : The Sovereign Self.