Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of IndifferenceU of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 308 páginas |
Contenido
Reading Texts Resurrecting Cultures Colonial Poetry in India 17571857 | 3 |
The Pedigree of the White Stallion Postcoloniality and Literary History | 41 |
Translation as a Speech Act Twelve Versions of One Subversive Verse | 69 |
Circumlocution The Institution Of Indifference | 101 |
Glossolalia The Dissimilar Twins of Language and Literature | 103 |
Multiculturalism Other Worlds in Edgar Allan Poe and Satyajit Ray | 118 |
Colonization Omeros Sails between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean | 155 |
Delocution The Sacralization Of Subjects | 177 |
Acts of Agency and Acts of God Postcolonial Narratives of Disaster | 179 |
The Testament of the Tenth Muse Toward a Feminist Sensibility | 201 |
A Fatwa against Indifference? Of Shamianas Death and the Platonic Censors | 225 |
Postscript | 250 |
Notes | 255 |
Index | 289 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference Rukmini Bhaya Nair Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference Rukmini Bhaya Nair Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Lying On The Postcolonial Couch: The Idea Of Difference Rukmini Bhaya Nair,Oxford University Press Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 243 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 116 - Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Página 242 - ... teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 12 - mid charcoal gleams, The Moslems' savoury supper steams; While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. Come walk with me the jungle through. If yonder hunter told us true, Far off, in desert dank and rude, The tiger holds...
Página 242 - Plato, a man of high authority indeed, but least of all for his Commonwealth, in the book of his laws, which no city ever yet received, fed his fancy with making many edicts to his airy...
Página 243 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou,sand pieces, and scattered...
Página xii - The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
Página 271 - It is a form of colonial discourse that is uttered inter dicta: a discourse at he crossroads of what is known and permissible and that which though known must be kept concealed; a discourse uttered between the lines and as such both against the rules and within them.