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Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India


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A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission.

Table of Contents:
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Beginnings of English Literary Study 2. Praeparatio Evangelica 3. "One Power, One Mind" 4. Rewriting English 5. Lessons of History 6. The Failure of English 7. Conclusion: Empire and the Western Canon Notes Select Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is also the author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief, which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, the James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of America, and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. She coedits the series South Asia Across the Disciplines, published jointly by the university presses of Columbia, Chicago, and California.

Review :
The great merit of Viswanathan's closely argued and admirably researched book is to show that the exigencies of managing an empire played a far more important role than has hitherto been recognized in the emergence of the discipline as a social practice. History of European Ideas Brilliantly working out in local detail a conception of literary education as a 'strategy of containment,' Masks of Conquest adds significantly both to the history of English education in relation to literary representation, and to the ongoing critical revaluation of the role of 'Literature' in modern culture. Papers in Language and Literature


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780231171694
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
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  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0231171692
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Sub Title: Literary Study and British Rule in India


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