Affective Communities

Informationen zum Autor Leela Gandhi teaches at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Postcolonialism: A Critical Introduction, a coauthor of England in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Through Colonial Eyes, and a coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. Klappentext Investigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography. Zusammenfassung Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ix 1. Introduction: Affective Communities 1 2. Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship 13 3. Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism 34 4. Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siècle 67 5. God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century 115 6. Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference 142 7. Conclusion: An Immature Politics 177 Notes 191 Index 237

Klappentext
Investigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography.


Zusammenfassung
Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements ix
1. Introduction: Affective Communities 1
2. Manifesto: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship 13
3. Sex: The Story of Late Victorian Homosexual Exceptionalism 34
4. Meat: A Short Cultural History of Animal Welfare at the Fin-de-Siècle 67
5. God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century 115
6. Art: Aestheticism and the Politics of Postcolonial Difference 142
7. Conclusion: An Immature Politics 177
Notes 191
Index 237

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