Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj
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Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj

  1. English
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Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj

About this book

Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword by James R. Kincaid
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Glossary
  9. 1 Introduction: Why the Animal? Or, Can the Subaltern Roar, and Other Risky Questions: Some Theoretical Frameworks
  10. 2 Animals, Children, and Street Urchins
  11. 3 Herein the British Nimrod May View a New and Arduous Species of the Chase: Hunting Narratives and the British Raj, 1757–1857
  12. 4 Our Rightful Claim to Superiority as a Dominant Race: Hunting Narratives and the British Raj, 1857–1947
  13. 5 Animals, Humans, and Natural Laws: Kipling and Forster
  14. 6 Making Kingdoms Out of Beasts
  15. Notes
  16. Illustration Credits
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index