Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore

by Mary Ellis Gibson

Book Overview

A 2012 CHOICE "Outstanding Academic Title"

A new historical approach to Indian English literature

Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821419412
• ISBN13: 9780821419410
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"