A01=Parama Roy
Author_Parama Roy
british colonialism
british empire
british imperialism
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colonial archival documents
colonial india
colonialism
conceptual identity
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gandhi
gender politics
going native
hindu
hindu nationalism
identity
impersonation
indian history
interdisciplinary
islam
kipling
mimicry
mother india
muscular hinduism
muslim
nationalism
nationalist discourse
originality
postcolonial india
postcolonialism
religious texts
richard burton
south asian history
subject formation
swami vivekananda
traffic
Product details
- ISBN 9780520204874
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Sep 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The continual, unpredictable, and often violent 'traffic' between identities in colonial and post colonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources - religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films-making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for 'western' or 'westernized' subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with 'going native', an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress' emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the 'muscular Hinduism' of Swami Vivekananda.
"Indian Traffic" demonstrates that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the nationalist discourses of South Asia and are central to the conceptual identity of South Asian post colonial theory itself.
Parama Roy is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.
