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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website andthrough Knowledge Unlatched.

Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely at the level of character, individual psychology, or the contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader sociopolitical forces. We thus find episodes of anger that serve as a collective response to the 'modernity' of wartime Cairo, feelings of jealousy that are inspired by the slave economy of imperial Brazil, and an overwhelming sense of boredom that emerges, in the late eighties, out of the bureaucratic procedures of the Indian Administrative Service. Affective Disorders also explores in some detail the formal consequences of these feelings - the way in which affective states such as anger or jealousy can often destabilize narratives, provoking crises of representation, generic ambivalence, and discursive rupture. By emphasizing the social origin of these emotions, and by analysing their influence on literary discourse, this study provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between various sociopolitical forces and the affective and aesthetic 'disorders' to which they give rise.

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Emotions in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Literary Criticism --- Subjects & Themes --- General

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Between 1770 and 1800, transformations in the relationship between metropolitan British society and its colonial holdings, and in the concept of the nation itself, left Britons with a new sense of themselves. Over the same period, the consolidation of the middle classes was accompanied by growing social constraints on sexuality and family life. Staging Governance locates the intersection of these two trends in the representation of British India on the London stage. Theatrical productions, especially those representing colonial life, pushed the limits of public discourse on sexuality and colonialism even as the government made efforts to shape and narrow them. At the same time, official discourse on colonial practices, such as the public trials of Clive and Hastings, became theatrical events themselves. Exploring this rapidly shifting world through a series of original readings of dramatic texts and important moments of oratory, Staging Governance demonstrates how the perceived crises of imperial and domestic Britain joined these spheres in the popular imagination. The economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment.

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Colonies in literature. --- Theater --- Political plays, English --- Theater --- Politics and literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- English drama --- Political aspects --- History and criticism. --- History --- History --- History and criticism. --- Literature: history & criticism

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Colonies in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Literature --- -Politics and culture --- #SBIB:309H1016 --- #SBIB:309H515 --- #SBIB:316.7C120 --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- Media: socio-culturele aspecten (massamedia en maatschappij, met inbegrip van cultuurhistorische werken en werken over de maatschappelijke en politieke effecten van de (diverse) media) --- Literatuurwetenschap, literatuursociologie --- Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken --- Political aspects --- -#A9309A --- European literature --- Politics and culture --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- #A9309A --- Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Politics and culture. --- Theory, etc. --- Literature History and criticism

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In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity, one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. A scholar who writes and teaches about South Asian literature and contemporary art with incredible virtuosity, he discusses writers as diverse as Morrison, Gordimer, and Conrad. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era.

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82.09 --- 82 "18/19" --- 316.7 --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- 82 "18/19" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Hedendaagse Tijd --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Literaire kritiek --- Colonies in literature. --- Culture conflict in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Politics and culture. --- History and criticism --- Colonies in literature --- Culture conflict in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Politics and culture --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Political aspects --- Developing countries --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- In literature. --- Literature --- Philosophy of language --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociolinguistics --- anno 1800-1999 --- Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Colonies --- Conflit culturel --- Politique et culture --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature --- Dans la littérature --- 19e siècle --- Thèmes, motifs --- 20e siècle

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During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong’o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in trauma and memory studies and invite us to reassess divisions and classifications in literary studies that generate such categories as modernist, colonial, postcolonial, national, and world literatures. Departing from tenets of modernist studies and from methods in the field of trauma and memory studies, Rizzuto contends that acute as well as chronic disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and extra-legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of literatures from the modernist, colonial, and postcolonial periods. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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Nationalism and literature - English-speaking countries. --- English literature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Imperialism in literature --- War in literature --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Justice, Administration of, in literature --- Nationalism and literature --- Literature and society --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Literature and nationalism --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- literature --- commonwealth literature (english) history and criticism --- war in literature --- politics --- literature and society$xenglish-speaking countries --- nationalism and literature english-speaking countries --- nationalism and literature --- imperialism in literature --- english literature --- literature and society --- psychic trauma in literature --- justice --- administration of --- in literature --- english literature 20th century history and criticism --- commonwealth literature (english) --- Colonialism --- England --- Modernism --- Modernity --- Mugo --- Commonwealth literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- War in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Justice, Administration of, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Nationalism and literature. --- Literature and society. --- literature and society -- english-speaking countries --- nationalism and literature -- english-speaking countries