Empire, the national, and the postcolonial, 1890-1920 : resistance in interaction /
This volume explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction
- Cross-national Intertextuality
- Networks of Resistance
- The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman
- India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta
- 'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter
- A Warlike Spirituality
- The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context
- Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita
- 'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship
- 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita
- Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves'
- The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell'
- A Joint 'Cry for Battle'
- 'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links
- 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism
- A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career
- Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend'
- 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf
- Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World
- Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism
- The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist
- Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle.