Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule

by Shuchi Kapila

Book Overview

Even though Edward Said's Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel's close involvement with colonialism, they have not considered how English novels themselves were radically altered by colonialism. In Educating Seeta, Shuchi Kapila argues that the paradoxes of indirect rule in British India were negotiated in "family romances" which encoded political struggle in the language of domestic and familial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256538
• ISBN13: 9780814256534
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"