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  • Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public

    Author(s):
    James Mulholland (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC English Romantic, LLC Late-18th-Century English, LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English, TC Postcolonial Studies, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
    Subject(s):
    British territories and possessions, India, Eighteenth century, British literature, Poetry
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    translocal, anglophone, British empire, Postcolonial English literature, 18th-century studies, 18th-century British literature, Postcolonial literature
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/z289-3q29
    Abstract:
    This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its colonies that has been the prevailing emphasis of literary criticism about empire. I focus on the eighteenth century's overlooked military men and lowlevel colonial administrators who wrote newspaper verse, travel poetry, and plays. I place their compositions in an institutional chronicle defined by the “cultural company‐state,” the British East India Company, which patronized and censored Anglo- India's multilingual reading publics. In the process of arguing for Anglo‐Indian literature as a local and regional creation, I consider the how the terms British and anglophone should function in literary studies of colonialism organized not by hybridity or creolization but by geographic relations of distinction.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.272
    Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Pub. Date:
    2020-5-7
    Journal:
    PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
    Volume:
    135
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    272 - 298
    ISSN:
    0030-8129,1938-1530
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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