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Carte Organizing Empire Purnima Bose

Organizing Empire

Individualism, Collective Agency, and India

Autor: Purnima Bose
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Duke University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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"Organizing Empire" presents a critical examination of how concepts of individualism functioned in s...

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Autor
Purnima Bose
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2003
Pagini
280
EAN
9780822327684
ISBN
0822327686
Enbook ID
04937482
Editura
Duke University Press
Greutate
395
Dimensiuni
149 x 235 x 18

Descriere completă

"Organizing Empire" presents a critical examination of how concepts of individualism functioned in support of and resistance to British imperialism in India. Through readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist narratives that emerged in parliamentary debates, popular colonial histories, newsletters, memoirs, biographies, and novels, Purnima Bose investigates the ramifications of reducing collective activism to individual intentions. Paying particular attention to the construction of gender, she shows that ideas of individualism rhetorically and theoretically bind colonials, feminists, nationalists, and neocolonials to one another. She demonstrates how reliance on ideas of the individual - as scapegoat or hero-enabled colonial and neocolonial powers to deny the violence they perpetrated. At the same time, she shows how analyses of the role of the individual provide a window into the dynamics and limitations of state formations and feminist and nationalist resistance movements. From a historically grounded, feminist perspective, Bose offers four case studies, each of which illuminates a distinct individualizing rhetorical strategy. She looks at the parliamentary debates on the 1919 Amritsar Massacre (in which several hundred unarmed Indian protesters were killed); Margaret Cousins's first-hand account of feminist organizing in Ireland and India; Kalpana Dutt's memoir of the Bengali terrorist movement of the 1930s, which was modeled in part on Irish anticolonial activity; and the popular histories generated by ex-colonial officials and their wives. Bringing to the fore the constraints that colonial domination placed upon agency and activism, "Organizing Empire" highlights the complexity of the multiple narratives that constitute British colonial history.

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