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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.