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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1. Verfasser: Prasad, Leela (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.