British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order

by Barry Forshaw

Book Overview

Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj explores representations of animals during British rule in India-the tigers, elephants, boars, furs, and feathers that sometimes all but obscured the human beneath and behind them, and that were integral in the creation and maintenance of the hierarchies of colonialism. The book exists on two levels: one offers a sophisticated view of how power and oppression work within constellations of species,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137005033
• ISBN13: 9781137005038
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"