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Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Ambreen Hai 1st edition
Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Ambreen Hai
Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure “haram” flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child–agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire?
392 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 1, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780821418819 |
| Publishers | Ohio University Press |
| Pages | 392 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 30 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |