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The Impress of the Empress: Provincializing the Queen in the Telugu Desa

Tadakamalla, Vijay Kumar

Victorian literature and culture, 2024-01, Vol.52 (1), p.84-103 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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The Impress of the Empress: Provincializing the Queen in the Telugu Desa
Autor: Tadakamalla, Vijay Kumar
Assuntos: 18th century ; Christianity ; Connotation ; Missionaries ; Modernity ; Names ; Orphanages ; Printing machinery ; Queens ; Religious missions ; Telugu
É parte de: Victorian literature and culture, 2024-01, Vol.52 (1), p.84-103
Descrição: In late nineteenth-century Telugu desa, “Victoria” was more than the name of the queen of Great Britain. It was, in Homi Bhabha's famous formulation, a “sign taken for wonder” the signification of which, however, remained ambivalent. As soon as she was proclaimed the empress of India, the queen's name acquired emblematic connotations that were exploited in both reform and counterreform discourses. Treating Queen Victoria not as a person but as a personification, the present essay reads some of the fetishized signs of the queen in the spatial, print, and literary cultures and notes how the colonial engines of modernity were appropriated, provincialized, and subverted in the domestic sphere.
Editor: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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