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Title: Romancing the Raj : interracial relations in Anglo-Indian romance novels
Related: History of intellectual culture, Vol. 4, Issue 1,
Related: http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/files/hic/teo.pdf
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Date: 2004
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200211 Postcolonial Studies 200503 British and Irish Literature
Author/Creator: Teo, Hsu-Ming
Description: This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories were symptomatic of British fantasies of colonial India and served as a forum to explore interracial relations as well as experimenting with the modern femininity of the New Woman. With the achievement of Indian independence in 1947, British interest in India as a locus for romance rapidly declined, thus demonstrating that these novels were never concerned with India but with British lives and British colonialism.
Description: 18 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Subject Keyword: 200211 Postcolonial Studies
Subject Keyword: 200503 British and Irish Literature
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History

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