Empire, the national, and the postcolonial, 1890-1920 : resistance in interaction / Elleke Boehmer.

By: Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. Description: viii, 239 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0198184468; 019818445x (Pbk.)Subject(s): Imperialism | Imperialism in literature | Postcolonialism | International relations | Literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809.93358 LOC classification: PN56.I465 | B6 2002PR478.I53 | B64 2002Online resources: WorldCat details | E-Book Fulltext

Contents:

TOC Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction -- Cross-national Intertextuality -- Networks of Resistance -- The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman -- India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta -- 'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter -- A Warlike Spirituality -- The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context -- Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita -- 'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship -- 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita -- Aurobindo 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 Links -- 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism -- A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career -- Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend' -- 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf -- Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World -- Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism -- The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist -- Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle.

Summary: "This book explores some of the political cooperations 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 of modernism 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 the Englishwoman 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', Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation and post-1950s syncretism and mimiery, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

TOC Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction --
Cross-national Intertextuality --
Networks of Resistance --
The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman --
India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta --
'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter --
A Warlike Spirituality --
The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context --
Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita --
'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship --
'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita --
Aurobindo 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 Links --
'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism --
A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career --
Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend' --
'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf --
Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World --
Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism --
The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist --
Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle.

"This book explores some of the political cooperations 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 of modernism 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 the Englishwoman 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', Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation and post-1950s syncretism and mimiery, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship."--Jacket.

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