This book explores the political and textual interrelations which linked anti-colonialists, nationalists, and modernists in the years 1890-1920. Focusing on both canonical and less well-known figures, and interconnecting Europe, India, and South...
more
This book explores the political and textual interrelations which linked anti-colonialists, nationalists, and modernists in the years 1890-1920. Focusing on both canonical and less well-known figures, and interconnecting Europe, India, and South Africa, the book considers how resistance to domination and nationalist processes of 'making new' emerged not only in reaction to the colonizer but due to the interaction between colonial margins at the time. - ;Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction; 2. India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta; 3. 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita; 4. 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism; 5. 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf; Bibliography; Index