India's uncanny
Anglo-Indians as (post)colonial Gothic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12341650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alzena MacDonald-D'Costa (Curtin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-349 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Continuum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304310902903165 |
| OpenAlex | W2047723547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper engages with Freud's theorisation of the uncanny to argue that the Anglo-Indian community occupies a position as India's unheimlich. Although familiar to the Indian nation, the community is alienated from it through narrative processes that construct the nation as progressive and independent from British colonial power. Dominant narratives of the Indian nation are strongly marked both by the anti-colonial Indian nationalism which characterised the freedom struggle and the repression of the ‘effects’ of British colonialism, including Partition and the existence of the Anglo-Indian community. I explore the ways Gothic strategies are often employed to signify Anglo-Indians as India's uncanny, and assert that such representation highlights the return of that which is repressed in the narration of the nation whilst highlighting the anxieties the community produces for the purportedly homogeneous and coherent Indian nation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Uncanny · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Who is black?
The national uncanny
Empire and sexuality
Migrants of Identity
Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Historiography
The Rise of the Gothic Novel
Remembering Partition
The Nation and Its Fragments
In the Circles of Fear and Desire
Home Matters
Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent
Imagined communities
The Anglo-Indians. A Study in the Problems and Processes involved in Emotional and Cultural Integration
Land of our Mothers
The Making of the Indian Nation
Marginality and Identity. Anglo-Indians as a Racially-Mixed Minority in India
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |