Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 Resistance in Interaction

by Boehmer, Elleke

• ISBN13: 9780198184461
• ISBN10: 0198184468
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191513275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the British empire. Boehmer significantly questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation, syncretism and mimicry, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship.

Author Biography

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. ix
Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction	p. 1
Cross-national Intertextuality	p. 1
Networks of Resistance	p. 12
The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman	p. 25
India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta	p. 34
'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter	p. 34
A Warlike Spirituality	p. 45
The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context	p. 49
Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita	p. 57
'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship	p. 67
'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita	p. 79
Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves'	p. 80
The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell'	p. 88
A Joint 'Cry for Battle'	p. 94
'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links	p. 106
'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism	p. 125
A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career	p. 131
Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend'	p. 150
'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf	p. 169
Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World	p. 169
Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism	p. 184
The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist	p. 191
Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 233
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