The Postcolonial Jane Austen

by Park,You-Me; Park,You-Me

• ISBN13: 9780415340625
• ISBN10: 0415340624
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-05-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last two hundred years. As a cultural icon, as well as an object of serious intellectual investigation, 'Jane Austen' has influenced the critical understanding of and the popular imagination around social relations and cultural rituals - the institution of marriage, the ideology of romantic relationship, the cultural imagining of class, or social prestige - as well as larger historical pictures that include slavery and colonialism. This cutting-edge volume brings together works by Jane Austen scholars and experts in film studies, postcolonial studies and feminism from four different continents. Their essays investigate the ways in which travelling theories and narratives are reinterpreted and translated in the global context; explore how cultural representations affect the ways social relations are reordered and conceptual boundaries are realigned; and the ways that gender operates in the discourses ofnationalism, colonialism and postcoloniality. This book is the first to bridge two significant bodies of recent Austen scholarship: one emphasising the issue of gender and one centralising the history of colonialism and slavery. It reveals the presence of Austen in India, Korea, and the United States as well as the influence of 'the Other' in Jane Austen's 'known community.' For students and researchers in literary, postcolonial, media and gender studies, this book provides a groundbreaking reappraisal of classical literature using postcolonial methodology.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvi
PART I Introduction	1	(26)
1 Austen in the world: postcolonial mappings	3	(24)
RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN
PART II Austen at home	27	(112)
2 Jane Austen goes to the seaside: Sanditon, English identity and the 'West Indian' schoolgirl	29	(27)
ELAINE JORDAN
3 Learning to ride at Mansfield Park	56	(18)
DONNA LANDRY
4 Austen's treacherous ivory: female patriotism, domestic ideology, and Empire	74	(19)
JON MEE
5 Domestic retrenchment and imperial expansion: the property plots of Mansfield Park	93	(23)
CLARA TUITE
6 Of windows and country walks: frames of space and movement in 1990's Austen adaptations	116	(23)
JULIANNE PIDDUCK
PART III Austen abroad	139	(96)
7 ReluctantJaneites: daughterly value in Jane Austen and Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's Swami	141	(22)
NALINI NATARAJAN
8 Jane Austen goes to India: Emily Eden's semi-detached home thoughts from abroad	163	(26)
JUDITH PLOTZ
9 Farewell to Jane Austen: uses of realism in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy	189	(16)
HIMANSU S. MOHAPA'I'RA AND JATINDRA K. NAYAK
10 Father's daughters: critical realism examines patriarchy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Pak Wanso's A Faltering Afternoon [Hwichongkorinun Ohu]	205	(13)
YOU-ME PARK
11 Clueless in the neo-colonial world order	218	(17)
UAYLE WALD
PART IV Poem	235	(4)
To a 'Jane Austen' class at Ibadan University	237	(2)
MOLARA DCUNDIPE
Index	239