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Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts : Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907 (British Authors Series, 1880-1920)

Philip Joseph Holden

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Description:Fiction written under colonialism at the turn of the nineteenth century continues to be a highly contested area of intellectual enquiry. Writers who put imperialism into focusRudyard Kipling, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conradare now also seen as important agents in creating and reinforcing notions of national culture and gender roles. Much recent colonial discourse analysis, however, has neglected writers who were part of colonial communities in favour of metropolitan travelers and visitors. Hugh Clifford's position as both colonial official and writer sets him apart from such contemporaries. His career as colonial administrator in the Malaya and Straits Settlements spanned five decades, and his Malayan short stories, novels and sketches draw an elaborate series of parallels between the act of governing the colony and the discipline of writing a literary text. What makes Holden's study especially interesting is his careful analysis not only of Clifford's unique role as administrator and writer, but his probing of Clifford's doubts about the colonial enterprise. The central contradiction of colonialism pervades his fiction. In its late nineteenth-century guise colonialism promised improvement and the uplifting of subject peoples, yet it could not admit them to a position of social equality since at that moment the basis for colonialism would vanish. Holden reveals how the experience as a colonial administrator made Clifford suspicious of the economic expediency which often underlies the rhetoric of mission and duty.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts : Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907 (British Authors Series, 1880-1920). To get started finding Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts : Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907 (British Authors Series, 1880-1920), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2000

ISBN: 0944318134

Description: Fiction written under colonialism at the turn of the nineteenth century continues to be a highly contested area of intellectual enquiry. Writers who put imperialism into focusRudyard Kipling, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conradare now also seen as important agents in creating and reinforcing notions of national culture and gender roles. Much recent colonial discourse analysis, however, has neglected writers who were part of colonial communities in favour of metropolitan travelers and visitors. Hugh Clifford's position as both colonial official and writer sets him apart from such contemporaries. His career as colonial administrator in the Malaya and Straits Settlements spanned five decades, and his Malayan short stories, novels and sketches draw an elaborate series of parallels between the act of governing the colony and the discipline of writing a literary text. What makes Holden's study especially interesting is his careful analysis not only of Clifford's unique role as administrator and writer, but his probing of Clifford's doubts about the colonial enterprise. The central contradiction of colonialism pervades his fiction. In its late nineteenth-century guise colonialism promised improvement and the uplifting of subject peoples, yet it could not admit them to a position of social equality since at that moment the basis for colonialism would vanish. Holden reveals how the experience as a colonial administrator made Clifford suspicious of the economic expediency which often underlies the rhetoric of mission and duty.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts : Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907 (British Authors Series, 1880-1920). To get started finding Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts : Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907 (British Authors Series, 1880-1920), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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