Masks of Conquest

Gauri Viswanathan

Original title: Masks of conquest

earliest edition we have, 1989 Columbia University Press, 1989 206 pages

The Social foundations of aesthetic forms series

A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape will be. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be u...

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Masks of Conquest paperback · 2014 · Columbia University Press · 240 pages · 9780231171694
Masks of Conquest edition · 2014 · Columbia University Press · 240 pages · 9780231539579
Masks of Conquest edition · 2014 · Columbia University Press · 9781322589367
Masks of conquest edition · 1989 · Columbia University Press · 206 pages

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