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Writing Wrongs
The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India
This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving across multiple media and genres for their...
Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge India
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English Writing and India, 1600–1920
Colonizing Aesthetics
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian...
Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge