TY - BOOK AU - Boehmer,Elleke TI - Empire, the national, and the postcolonial, 1890-1920: resistance in interaction SN - 0198184468 AV - PN56.I465 B6 2002 U1 - 809.93358 PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Imperialism KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Postcolonialism KW - International relations KW - Literature KW - History and criticism N1 - 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; English N2 - "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 UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/empire-the-national-and-the-postcolonial-1890-1920-resistance-in-interaction/oclc/48532896&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/5992 ER -