Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about Indian in English, 1765-2000

By Margery Sabin

Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195150171
• ISBN13: 9780195150179
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.7"