The Resource Out of bounds : Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement, Alan Johnson
Out of bounds : Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement, Alan Johnson
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- Summary
- Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces--jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs--played in the literary and social production of British India. Author Alan Johnson illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. He shows that the bicultural, intrinsically ambivalent outlook of Anglo-Indian writers is acutely sensitive to spatial motifs that, insofar as these condition the idea of home and homelessness, alternately support and subvert conventional colonial perspectives. Colonial spatial motifs not only informed European representations of India, but also shaped important aesthetic notions of the period, such as the sublime. This book also explains how and why Europeans' rhetorical and visual depictions of the Indian subcontinent, whether ostensibly administrative, scientific, or aesthetic, constituted a primary means of memorializing Empire, creating an idiom that postcolonial India continues to use in certain ways. Consequently, Johnson examines specific motifs of Anglo-Indian cultural remembrance, such as the hunting memoir, hill station life, and the Mutiny, all of which facilitated the mythic iconography of the Raj. He bases his work on the premise that spatiality (the physical as well as social conceptualization of space) is a vital component of the mythos of colonial life and that the study of spatiality is too often a subset of a focus on temporality. Johnson reads canonical and lesser-known fiction, memoirs, and travelogues alongside colonial archival documents to identify shared spatial motifs and idioms that were common to the period. Although he discusses colonial works, he focuses primarily on the writings of Anglo-Indians such as Rudyard Kipling, John Masters, Jim Corbett, and Flora Annie Steel to demonstrate how conventions of spatial identity were rhetorically maintained--and continually compromised. All of these considerations amplify this book's focus on the porosity of boundaries in literatures of the colony and of the nation. Out of Bounds will be of interest to not only postcolonial literary scholars, but also scholars and students in interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies, South Asian cultural history, cultural anthropology, women's studies, and sociology
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
- Contents
-
- Chapter 5. Medical Topography in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters
- Chapter 6. The Engineers2 Revenge, the Age of Kali: Kipling's Bridges and the End of Jungles
- Chapter 7. Man-Eaters of Kumaon and Jim Corbett's Jungle Idiom
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Colonial Space, Anglo-Indian Perspectives
- Chapter 1. "I Want to Send India to England": The Aesthetics of Landscape and the Colonial Home
- Chapter 2. Hills Kinder Than Plains? Kipling's Monstrous Hill Station
- Chapter 3. "Out of Bounds": Clubs, Cantonments, Plains
- Chapter 4. Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity
- Isbn
- 9780824860288
- Label
- Out of bounds : Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement
- Title
- Out of bounds
- Title remainder
- Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan Johnson
- Subject
-
- Anglo-Indian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Anglo-Indian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Colonies in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955
- Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- 1800-1999
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian | Indic
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Space in literature
- Space in literature
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- Anglo-Indian literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces--jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs--played in the literary and social production of British India. Author Alan Johnson illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. He shows that the bicultural, intrinsically ambivalent outlook of Anglo-Indian writers is acutely sensitive to spatial motifs that, insofar as these condition the idea of home and homelessness, alternately support and subvert conventional colonial perspectives. Colonial spatial motifs not only informed European representations of India, but also shaped important aesthetic notions of the period, such as the sublime. This book also explains how and why Europeans' rhetorical and visual depictions of the Indian subcontinent, whether ostensibly administrative, scientific, or aesthetic, constituted a primary means of memorializing Empire, creating an idiom that postcolonial India continues to use in certain ways. Consequently, Johnson examines specific motifs of Anglo-Indian cultural remembrance, such as the hunting memoir, hill station life, and the Mutiny, all of which facilitated the mythic iconography of the Raj. He bases his work on the premise that spatiality (the physical as well as social conceptualization of space) is a vital component of the mythos of colonial life and that the study of spatiality is too often a subset of a focus on temporality. Johnson reads canonical and lesser-known fiction, memoirs, and travelogues alongside colonial archival documents to identify shared spatial motifs and idioms that were common to the period. Although he discusses colonial works, he focuses primarily on the writings of Anglo-Indians such as Rudyard Kipling, John Masters, Jim Corbett, and Flora Annie Steel to demonstrate how conventions of spatial identity were rhetorically maintained--and continually compromised. All of these considerations amplify this book's focus on the porosity of boundaries in literatures of the colony and of the nation. Out of Bounds will be of interest to not only postcolonial literary scholars, but also scholars and students in interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies, South Asian cultural history, cultural anthropology, women's studies, and sociology
- Cataloging source
- Nz
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnson, Alan G.
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Corbett, Jim
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Corbett, Jim
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster
- Colonies in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Space in literature
- Anglo-Indian literature
- Anglo-Indian literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Anglo-Indian literature
- Colonies in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Space in literature
- Label
- Out of bounds : Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement, Alan Johnson
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Chapter 5. Medical Topography in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters
- Chapter 6. The Engineers2 Revenge, the Age of Kali: Kipling's Bridges and the End of Jungles
- Chapter 7. Man-Eaters of Kumaon and Jim Corbett's Jungle Idiom
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Colonial Space, Anglo-Indian Perspectives
- Chapter 1. "I Want to Send India to England": The Aesthetics of Landscape and the Colonial Home
- Chapter 2. Hills Kinder Than Plains? Kipling's Monstrous Hill Station
- Chapter 3. "Out of Bounds": Clubs, Cantonments, Plains
- Chapter 4. Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity
- Control code
- ocn794925359
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824860288
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824860288
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62p57n
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)794925359
- Label
- Out of bounds : Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement, Alan Johnson
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Chapter 5. Medical Topography in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters
- Chapter 6. The Engineers2 Revenge, the Age of Kali: Kipling's Bridges and the End of Jungles
- Chapter 7. Man-Eaters of Kumaon and Jim Corbett's Jungle Idiom
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Colonial Space, Anglo-Indian Perspectives
- Chapter 1. "I Want to Send India to England": The Aesthetics of Landscape and the Colonial Home
- Chapter 2. Hills Kinder Than Plains? Kipling's Monstrous Hill Station
- Chapter 3. "Out of Bounds": Clubs, Cantonments, Plains
- Chapter 4. Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity
- Control code
- ocn794925359
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824860288
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824860288
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62p57n
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)794925359
Subject
- Anglo-Indian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Anglo-Indian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Colonies in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955
- Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- 1800-1999
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian | Indic
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Space in literature
- Space in literature
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- Anglo-Indian literature
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