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Imagining India from the Margins: Liberalism and Hybridity in Late Colonial India

Ghimire, Bishnu
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334344362

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
This dissertation offers a comparative study of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable (1935), and Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) as cases of cultural and political border-crossing in British India and proposes a philosophical affinity between Forster's liberal humanism and the colonial hybridity of Anand and Hosain: It argues that the liberal humanism of Forster's Indian writings prefigures the colonial hybridity of the two Indian writers from the next generation. The study also highlights the various forms of marginality that Forster, Anand, and Hosain occupy in connection with the British Empire and analyzes how the three critique colonialist discourse by systematically undoing its various tenets, including essentialist notions of difference and of cultural and racial identity.
Carey Snyder, PhD (Committee Chair)
Joseph McLaughlin, PhD (Committee Member)
Ghirmai Negash, PhD (Committee Member)
Haley Duschinski, PhD (Committee Member)
252 p.
Aesthetics; Asian Literature; Asian Studies; British and Irish Literature; Comparative Literature; Literature; Modern Literature; South Asian Studies
Post colonial; late colonial India; the Raj; liberal humanism; hybridity; irony; Forster; Anand; Hosain; Rorty; Bhabha; representation; culture; nationalism; identity politics; critique of essentialism; cosmopolitanism; metropolitan; margin

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  • Ghimire, B. (2012). Imagining India from the Margins: Liberalism and Hybridity in Late Colonial India [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334344362

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ghimire, Bishnu. Imagining India from the Margins: Liberalism and Hybridity in Late Colonial India. 2012. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334344362.

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  • Ghimire, Bishnu. "Imagining India from the Margins: Liberalism and Hybridity in Late Colonial India." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334344362

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