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Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) - Softcover

Book 93 of 155: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Jayasena, Nalin

 
9780415998437: Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415998433 ISBN 13: 9780415998437
Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous masculinity, therefore, both mimicked and departed from its metropolitan counterpart. The study combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus that is not limited to a single colonial society but ranges from colonial Bengal, Burma, Borneo and finally to colonial Australia.

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Nalin Jayasena

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415998433
ISBN 13 
9780415998437
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
262