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Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue

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"Drawing on the work of leading theorists of imperialism, Yumna Siddiqi reveals how British writers express the anxious workings of a will to maintain imperial power in their writing. She also illuminates the ways South Asian writers portray the paradoxes …

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"Drawing on the work of leading theorists of imperialism, Yumna Siddiqi reveals how British writers express the anxious workings of a will to maintain imperial power in their writing. She also illuminates the ways South Asian writers portray the paradoxes of postcolonial modernity and trace the ruses and uses of reason in a world where the modern marks a horizon not only of hope but also of economic, military, and ecological disaster."--BOOK JACKET.

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