Mary Ellis Gibson

Indian Angles

English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore

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In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson recreates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India--writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities. In lucid and accessible prose, Gibson presents a new theoretical approach to colonial and postcolon… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8214-1941-0
EAN: 9780821419410
Produktnummer: 6388049
Verlag: Ohio University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 344 S.
Masse: H16.3 cm x B22.9 cm x D2.6 cm 604 g
Gewicht: 604
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Mary Ellis Gibson is Professor of English at the University of Glasgow and Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of English Emerita at University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her books include Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore (Ohio, 2011); History and the Prism of Art: Browning's Poetic Experiments; and Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. She has also edited several other anthologies, including New Stories by Southern Women; Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers; and Critical Essays on Robert Browning.