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Article: Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Harish Trivedi's book advances a "transactional" view of English India by seeking to examine some samples of literary and cultural relations. This view constitutes both reception (how Indians responded to English literature on the one hand) and representation. (how India was imaged and construed in British writing on the other). The eight essays that comprise parts 1 and 2 are "case studies" involving writers, texts, and the politics, so to speak, of reading them with a correlated awareness of the culture and politics of imperialism. The "receptions" include Shakespeare; Omar Khayyam in Persian, English, and Hindi translations; the "internationalism" of Tagore ("received" ...