| Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about Indian in English, 1765-2000 Contributor(s): Sabin, Margery (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195150171 ISBN-13: 9780195150179 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 820.932 |
| LCCN: 2002066791 |
| Lexile Measure: 1590 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.28" W x 9.72" (1.09 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies. |