British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion
Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica,...
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This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland. In reading these three mid-century rebellions as flashpoints for the varying yet parallel attempts by imperialist colonialists, nationalists, and socialists to transform the oppressed colonized worker (the subjected laborer) into one whose identity is created and limited by labor (a laboring subject), this book also tracks varying modes of resistance to those attempts in all three colonies. In drawing from a range of historical, literary, and visual sources outside the borders of the Anglophone literary canon, this book contends that these texts not only serve as points of engagements with the rebellions but also constitute an archive of oppression and resistance.
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Introduction: Revolting Bodies.- 1. Rise of the Machines: The State, its Subjects, and the Sepoy Rebellion.- 2. Inspiriting Flesh/Fleshing Out Spirit.- 3. Cellular Structures, Boundaries, and Networks: Tracing the Fenian Rebellion.- 4. Bodies in Labor, Bodies as Revolt.- Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Sheshalatha Reddy
Sheshalatha Reddy is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Howard University, USA, where she teaches British and Anglophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. In the last several years she has published articles in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Victorian Literature and Culture as well as in edited collections. She also published an edited anthology entitled Mapping the Nation: An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870-1920 (2012) and several solicited encyclopedia articles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sheshalatha Reddy
- 2018, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017, XL, 271 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319862197
- ISBN-13: 9783319862194
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"This book provides a valuable contribution to the history and literature of anti-colonial rebellion in the nineteenth century and beyond. It is well worth reading for the sheer variety of texts it examines and for the way Reddy showcases the complexity of the ideas and positions within them." (Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Victorian Studies, Vol. 61 (4), 2019)
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