Rj Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 4883897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rj Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rj |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5699-3513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A sea of islands, a sea of crime
Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about 'islandness' operate in contemporary English-language crime fiction set in the Aegean Sea. Specifically, it uses geocriticism and spatial literary studies to explore the ways non-textual paratext-in particular …
The genre of islands
To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on “high” literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands. If one of the goals of island studies is to interrogate prevailing ideas about “islandness,” then the islands that crowd the storyworlds of popular genres merit close attention. This article focuses on popular fiction to advocate “performative geograph…
Picturing the Indian Tiger
In The Empire of Nature John M. MacKenzie suggests there were “three animals in India with which the British had a special hunting relationship, the tiger, the elephant and the pig” (179). Of these, the tiger is the one most closely associated with Britain's imperial relationship with India. By the mid nineteenth century, as Joseph Sramek explains, “tigers . . . had become invested with several potent meanings” (659). Several critics including Sr…
J.G. Farrell
In 1979 the novelist J.G. Farrell bought an old farmhouse near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head peninsula in Co. Cork, and moved to Ireland. Just four months later, in August 1979, at the age of fort
“Amid the Alien Corn”
Reading the Club as Colonial Island in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and George Orwell’s Burmese Days
This paper examines the “island effect” in two enormously influential colonial fictions published in the final decades of the British Empire in India. Through a detailed analysis of the Club scene in Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Orwell’s pervasive use of the Kyauktada Club in Burmese Days (1934), this paper brings critical focus to the phenomenon of the Club in British India. It explores the way the Club functions as an ‘island’ microc…
Contesting the can(n)on
This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The TrotterNama (1988), the text that maps the history of AngloIndians. The article enumerates the principal themes of AngloIndian fiction before demonstrating the way The TrotterNama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of AngloIndia and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, …
Playing the White Man
In his seminal Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction Bhupal Singh suggests that strictly speaking, the term Anglo-Indian fiction means fiction mainly describing the life of Englishmen in India.1 Paul Scotts Raj Quartet,2 which as Sabina Sawhney (amongst others) has noted, is populated almost exclusively by the British, clearly fits this narrow definition of the genre. Sawhney goes on to suggest that Scotts monocular vision reinforces the Western Europea…
Duelling with the crown
J. G. Farrell, an Australian
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The genre of islands
To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on “high” literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands. If one of the goals of island studies is to interrogate prevailing ideas about “islandness,” then the islands that crowd the storyworlds of popular genres merit close attention. This article focuses on popular fiction to advocate “performative geograph…
Picturing the Indian Tiger
In The Empire of Nature John M. MacKenzie suggests there were “three animals in India with which the British had a special hunting relationship, the tiger, the elephant and the pig” (179). Of these, the tiger is the one most closely associated with Britain's imperial relationship with India. By the mid nineteenth century, as Joseph Sramek explains, “tigers . . . had become invested with several potent meanings” (659). Several critics including Sr…
J.G. Farrell
In 1979 the novelist J.G. Farrell bought an old farmhouse near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head peninsula in Co. Cork, and moved to Ireland. Just four months later, in August 1979, at the age of fort
Reading the Club as Colonial Island in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and George Orwell’s Burmese Days
This paper examines the “island effect” in two enormously influential colonial fictions published in the final decades of the British Empire in India. Through a detailed analysis of the Club scene in Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Orwell’s pervasive use of the Kyauktada Club in Burmese Days (1934), this paper brings critical focus to the phenomenon of the Club in British India. It explores the way the Club functions as an ‘island’ microc…
Contesting the can(n)on
This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The TrotterNama (1988), the text that maps the history of AngloIndians. The article enumerates the principal themes of AngloIndian fiction before demonstrating the way The TrotterNama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of AngloIndia and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, …
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
J. G. Farrell, an Australian
Duelling with the crown
Playing the White Man
In his seminal Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction Bhupal Singh suggests that strictly speaking, the term Anglo-Indian fiction means fiction mainly describing the life of Englishmen in India.1 Paul Scotts Raj Quartet,2 which as Sabina Sawhney (amongst others) has noted, is populated almost exclusively by the British, clearly fits this narrow definition of the genre. Sawhney goes on to suggest that Scotts monocular vision reinforces the Western Europea…
Contesting the can(n)on
This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The TrotterNama (1988), the text that maps the history of AngloIndians. The article enumerates the principal themes of AngloIndian fiction before demonstrating the way The TrotterNama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of AngloIndia and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, …
“Amid the Alien Corn”
Reading the Club as Colonial Island in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and George Orwell’s Burmese Days
This paper examines the “island effect” in two enormously influential colonial fictions published in the final decades of the British Empire in India. Through a detailed analysis of the Club scene in Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Orwell’s pervasive use of the Kyauktada Club in Burmese Days (1934), this paper brings critical focus to the phenomenon of the Club in British India. It explores the way the Club functions as an ‘island’ microc…
Picturing the Indian Tiger
In The Empire of Nature John M. MacKenzie suggests there were “three animals in India with which the British had a special hunting relationship, the tiger, the elephant and the pig” (179). Of these, the tiger is the one most closely associated with Britain's imperial relationship with India. By the mid nineteenth century, as Joseph Sramek explains, “tigers . . . had become invested with several potent meanings” (659). Several critics including Sr…
J.G. Farrell
In 1979 the novelist J.G. Farrell bought an old farmhouse near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head peninsula in Co. Cork, and moved to Ireland. Just four months later, in August 1979, at the age of fort
The genre of islands
To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on “high” literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands. If one of the goals of island studies is to interrogate prevailing ideas about “islandness,” then the islands that crowd the storyworlds of popular genres merit close attention. This article focuses on popular fiction to advocate “performative geograph…
A sea of islands, a sea of crime
Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about 'islandness' operate in contemporary English-language crime fiction set in the Aegean Sea. Specifically, it uses geocriticism and spatial literary studies to explore the ways non-textual paratext-in particular …
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