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“Nancy Paxton asks why rape disappears in British literature about English domestic life in the 1790s and charts its reappearance in British literature about India written between 1830 and 1947. Paxton displays the hybrid qualities of familiar novels like Kipling\u2019s\u00a0Kim<\/em><\/i>\u00a0and Forster\u2019s\u00a0A Passage to India<\/em><\/i>\u00a0by situating them in a richly detailed cultural context that reveals the dynamic relationship between metropolitan British literature and novels written by men and women who lived in the colonial contact zone of British India throughout this period.<\/p>\n Drawing on current feminist and gender theory as well as a wide range of historical and cultural sources, Paxton identifies four different \u201cscripts\u201d about interracial and intraracial rape that appear in novels about India during the period of British rule.\u00a0 Surveying more than thirty canonized and popular Anglo-Indian novels, Paxton shows how the treatment of rape reflects basic conflicts in the social and sexual contracts defining British and Indian women\u2019s relationship to the nation state throughout the period.\u00a0 This study reveals how and why novels written after the Indian Uprising of 1857 popularized the theme of English women victimized by Indian men.\u00a0 Paxton demonstrates how all these novels reflect unresolved ideological and symbolic conflicts in British ideas about sex, violence, and power.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [From Amazon.ca Description]: “Nancy Paxton asks why rape disappears in British literature about English domestic life in the 1790s and charts its reappearance in British literature about India written between 1830 and 1947. Paxton displays the hybrid qualities of familiar novels like Kipling\u2019s\u00a0Kim\u00a0and Forster\u2019s\u00a0A Passage to India\u00a0by situating them in a richly detailed cultural context Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66,83,52],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-devadasi-life","category-history","category-secondary-sources-about-novels","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t