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ISBN 10: 9622099343
ISBN 13: 978-9622099340
Author: Douglas Kerr
Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East – centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific – in the colonial and postcolonial period.
Table of contents:
1 Introduction
2 Hinterland
Hunter in the grass: A Kipling story
Something in a cave: A Passage to India
3 Conversions and Reversions
Kipling and the missionaries
Liberal and conservative ideas in British India
Kipling’s creed
4 Crowds
Outnumbering: Western individuals and Eastern crowds
Playing to the crowd: Lord Jim, performance and hypnotism
5 Nature and Some Naturalists
In the wilderness: Leonard Woolf and others
George Orwell and the natural history of Burma
The Borneo rhinoceros: Redmond O’Hanlon’s belated travels
6 Contacts and Transgressions
On the beach: Denationalization and Stevenson in the Pacific
In the bush: Clifford and going native
In touch: Gender and regeneration in Maud Diver’s romances
Contact and contagion: Nightrunners of Bengal
7 Travellers to War
China 1938: Auden and Isherwood
Indochina 1973–75: James Fenton
8 Figures of Rule
Anarchy in the East: Burgess and the Malayan trilogy
Law and order: The British and the rule of law
Other orders: Contesting local jurisdictions and practices
Hard cases: Conversations between ruler and ruled in Scott, Coates, and Woolf
9 Not Knowing the Oriental
Useful ignorance: Orientalism and Cromer’s Modern Egypt
What Strickland knew: Kipling’s policeman and dangerous knowledge
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