Reading the splendid body
Nandini Bhattacharya
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Reading the splendid body
Published
1998
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Pages
232
ISBN-10
0874136121
Description
This book surveys an underlying discourse on female and oriental consumerism in nearly four centuries of British colonialist narratives on India. It examines some of the significant ways in which the subaltern and female body was constructed by Western ethnographers within early modern British colonialist discourses. The book offers a genealogy of colonialist spectatorship, and examines the ideologies originating within both public and private colonial spheres. Through a comparison of the discourses about and by women one can see the continuation of patriarchal injunctions within Western protofeminist discourses. Economic, ethical, colonial, patriarchal, and protofeminist polemics thus reached to and shaped one another, and this book is a record of the complex ways in which gender discourses and colonialist discourses intersected to create a colonialist spectatorship that constituted non-Western and female subjects as spectacular and needing discipline. The insights on Western protofeminists and their crisis of self-representation as subjects versus objects of discourse also further the examination of women's history in the colonial arena.
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This edition of Reading the splendid body has approximately 232 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
How long does it take to read Reading the splendid body?
For most readers, Reading the splendid body typically takes between 4h 50m and 3h 13m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 58,000 words and common reading speeds.
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Who is the author of Reading the splendid body?
Reading the splendid body was written by Nandini Bhattacharya.
When was Reading the splendid body published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 1998. The original work may have been published on a different date.