About this title: No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the rather different political and intellectual climate of 1960s national liberation struggles, Benita Parry produced what remains one of the landmark ...
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Description: London, Verso, (1998). Reprint. Wrappers, pp. xiii, 274. Fine. ISBN 1-85984-128-7. "...authoritatively surveys the melange of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indiands from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond. The book also includes treatments of more liberal thinkers like Edmund Candler, Edward James Thompson, and E.M. Forster..." (cover blurb). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859841280ISBN:1859841287
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859841280ISBN:1859841287
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Verso, London
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859841280ISBN:1859841287
Description: Very Good. Chapter Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 274 pages with index, back cover and last few pages creased-upper corner, light cover scuffing. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 10/11/1998
ISBN-13:9781859841280ISBN:1859841287
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Binding: TRADE PAPER
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A. : Verso Books, 1998, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859841280ISBN:1859841287
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