The audacious raconteur

• Verfasst von: Prasad, Leela [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The audacious raconteur
• Titelzusatz: sovereignty and storytelling in colonial India
• Verf.angabe: Leela Prasad
• Verlagsort: Ithaca ; London
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: ix, 206 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5227-8
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5228-5
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5229-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Britisch-Indien / (s)Geistesleben / (s)Literatur / (s)Erzählen / (z)Geschichte 1868-1930
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Prasad, Leela: The audacious raconteur. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020 |(DLC)2020005703
• K10plus-PPN: 169031611X

Abstract

Introduction : "An Acre of Ground" -- The Ruse of Colonial Modernity : Anna Liberata de Souza -- The History of the English Empire as a Fall : P.V. Ramaswami Raju -- The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami -- The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. Natesa Sastri -- Conclusion : The Sovereign Self.

Abstract

"The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"--