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Siddiqi, Yumna.

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    Title/Author: Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue // Yumna Siddiqi.
    Author: Siddiqi, Yumna.
    Published: New York :Columbia University Press, : c2008.,
    Description: xi, 290 p. ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire.
    Subject: English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
    Online resource: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0001323.html
    ISBN: 9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper)
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