Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845

Visualising Identity and Difference

Prasannajit de Silva (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

309 Seiten

2018 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-0898-9 (ISBN)

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A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and issues about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists' self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them.

Prasannajit de Silva completed his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 2007. He lectures on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art, and his recent teaching includes roles as Associate Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, Associate Tutor in Art History at the University of Sussex, and Sessional Lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2018
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5275-0898-6 / 1527508986
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-0898-9 / 9781527508989
Zustand	Neuware