Contents |
Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2007006785 |
ISBN | 9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0231138083 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780231138093 (pbk.) |
ISBN | 0231138091 (pbk.) |
ISBN | 9780231510868 (electronic) |
ISBN | 0231510861 (electronic) |