Elleke Böhmer:Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction
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She has also written short stories and three novels, most recently Bloodlines. --The Minnesota Review. The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist. Anti-Imperial Interaction across the Colonial… More...
She has also written short stories and three novels, most recently Bloodlines. --The Minnesota Review. The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist. Anti-Imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline. The Nile on eBay Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction by Elleke Boehmer This book explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the British empire. Boehmer significantly questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation, syncretism and mimicry, anddismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920. By developing the key motifs of lateral interaction and colonial interdiscursivity, Boehmer builds a picture of the imperial world as an intricate network of surprising contacts and margin-to-margin interrelationships, and ofmodernism as a far more constellated cultural phenomenon than previously understood. Individual case studies consider Irish support for the Boers in 1899-1902, the path-breaking radical partnership of theEnglishwoman Sister Nivedita and the Bengali extremist Aurobindo Ghose, Sol Plaatje's conflicted South African nationalism, and the cross-border, cosmopolitan involvements of W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. Underlining Frantz Fanon's perception that 'a colonized people is not alone', Boehmer significantly questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation, syncretism and mimicry, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonialrelationship. Author Biography Elleke Boehmer is Professor of Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of many books and articles on postcolonial writing and theory. She has also written short stories and three novels, most recently Bloodlines. Table of Contents 1. Anti-Imperial Interaction across the Colonial BorderlineIntroductionCross-national IntertextualityNetworks of ResistanceThe Irish Boer War and The United Irishman2. India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique EncounterA Warlike SpiritualityThe Cross-Meshed Calcutta ContextInterdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship3. 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister NiveditaAurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves'The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell'A Joint 'Cry for Battle''To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links4. 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued NationalismA Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary CareerNationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend'5. 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard WoolfTowards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial WorldLeonard Woolf: Reluctant ImperialismThe Cultural Nationalist as ModernistConclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle Review `Review from previous edition This formidably well-researched and carefully documented book demonstrates the strengths of a complex comparative methodology in postcolonial studies.'The Yearbook of English Studies`Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial strikes an excellent balance between theory and historical documentation. Boehmer analyses new materials alongside canonical texts, making it a very original contribution to the postcolonial field. Most importantly, it decentres the monologic narrative of imperialism, whose success greatly depended upon imposing a framework of binary opposition between the centre and its peripheries. . . . The book provides uswith a fresh alternative, and a possibility of reading resistance between the margins.'Wasafiri`This book is infinitely rich in detail, but sustains it with a broad and challenging thesis. It invites us to begin to think about the Empire not only as a discrete series of colonial events linked only through their common resistance to the imperial center, but also as a network of interacting nodes in a living and shifting historical and cultural exchange with multiple routings and dimensions.'Interventions`Boehmer's most challenging and rewarding book to date. Her encyclopaedic knowledge and sensitivity to textual detail . . . combine excitingly with her impressive theoretical dexterity and ambition.'Journal of Southern African Studies Long Description Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920. By developing the key motifs of lateral interaction and colonial interdiscursivity, Boehmer builds a picture of the imperial world as an intricate network of surprising contacts and margin-to-margin interrelationships, and ofmodernism as a far more constellated cultural phenomenon than previously understood. Individual case studies consider Irish support for the Boers in 1899-1902, the path-breaking radical partnership of theEnglishwoman Sister Nivedita and the Bengali extremist Aurobindo Ghose, Sol Plaatje's conflicted South African nationalism, and the cross-border, cosmopolitan involvements of W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. Underlining Frantz Fanon's perception that 'a colonized people is not alone', Boehmer significantly questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation, syncretism and mimicry, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonialrelationship. Review Text `Review from previous edition This formidably well-researched and carefully documented book demonstrates the strengths of a complex comparative methodology in postcolonial studies.'The Yearbook of English Studies`Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial strikes an excellent balance between theory and historical documentation. Boehmer analyses new materials alongside canonical texts, making it a very original contribution to the postcolonial field. Most importantly, it decentres the monologic narrative of imperialism, whose success greatly depended upon imposing a framework of binary opposition between the centre and its peripheries. . . . The book provides uswith a fresh alternative, and a possibility of reading resistance between the margins.'Wasafiri`This book is infinitely rich in detail, but sustains it with a broad and challenging thesis. It invites us to begin to think about the Empire not only as a discrete series of colonial events linked only through their common resistance to the imperial center, but also as a network of interacting nodes in a living and shifting historical and cultural exchange with multiple routings and dimensions.'Interventions`Boehmer's most challenging and rewarding book to date. Her encyclopaedic knowledge and sensitivity to textual detail . . . combine excitingly with her impressive theoretical dexterity and ambition.'Journal of Southern African Studies Review Quote "This formidably well-researched and carefully documented book demonstrates the strengths of a complex comparative methodology in postcolonial studies."--The Yearbook of English Studies "A timely work, and indeed part of a growing and welcome movement towards historicization in postcolonial studies.... Valuable in the way it foregrounds neglected texts, and suggests new possibilities for reading and novel critical perspectives on late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century literatures in English."--English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 "Stunning.... Boehmer's task is remarkably important: to produce a genealogy of anti-colonial resistance from the ground level at the height of British imperialism and trace with great precision the interactions 'between peripheries.'"--The Minnesota Review Details ISBN019818445X Author Elleke Boehmer Short Title EMPIRE THE NATL & THE POSTCOLO Pages 239 Language English ISBN-10 019818445X ISBN-13 9780198184454 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2005 Publication Date 2005-03-31 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Resistance in Interaction Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 809.9335809041 Affiliation University of Oxford, UK Illustrations black & white illustrations Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Audience Professional and Scholarly DOI 10.1604/9780198184454 UK Release Date 2005-01-06 AU Release Date 2005-01-06 NZ Release Date 2005-01-06 Edited by Virginia Murray Birth 1938 Death 1979 Position Assistant Professor and Director of EMS and Disaster Medicine Qualifications QC We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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