Out of Bounds
Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9360554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Johnson (0009-0006-3869-8581), Alan Kim Johnson (0000-0002-6997-161X, corresponding author), Alan G Johnson |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 316 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Out of bounds (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834838.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4242015157 |
| Open Library | OL24893436M |
| ISBN | 9780824834838 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | IjotAEACAAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This book focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. It illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. The book shows that the bicultural, intrinsically ambivalent outlook of Anglo-Indian writers is acutely sensitive to spatial motifs that, insofar as these condition the idea of home and homelessness, alternately support and subvert conventional colonial perspectives. The book also explains how and why Europeans' rhetorical and visual depictions of the Indian subcontinent, whether ostensibly administrative, scientific, or aesthetic, constituted a primary means of memorializing Empire, creating an idiom that postcolonial India continues to use in certain ways. Consequently, the book examines specific motifs of Anglo-Indian cultural remembrance, such as the hunting memoir, hill station life, and the Mutiny, all of which facilitated the mythic iconography of the Raj. Although the book discusses colonial works, it focuses primarily on the writings of Anglo-Indians such as Rudyard Kipling, John Masters, Jim Corbett, and Flora Annie Steel to demonstrate how conventions of spatial identity were rhetorically maintained—and continually compromised. All of these considerations amplify this book's focus on the porosity of boundaries in literatures of the colony and of the nation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · British Empire · Colonialism · Iconography · Ideology · Literature · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philippine History and Culture · 19th century · 20th century · Anglo-Indian literature · Anglo-indian literature, history and criticism · Colonies in literature · Criticism and interpretation · English literature · Flora Annie Webster Steel (1847-1929) · History and criticism · Imperialism in literature · Jim Corbett (1875-1955) · Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) · Space in literature
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |