Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial: 1890-1920. Resistance in Interaction

Abstract

1. ANTI-IMPERIAL INTERACTION ACROSS THE COLONIAL BORDERLINE Introduction Cross-national Intertextuality Networks of Resistance The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman 2. INDIA THE STARTING POINT: CROSS-NATIONAL SELF-TRANSLATION IN 1900S CALCUTTA 'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter A Warlike Spirituality The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita 'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship 3. 'BUT TRANSMITTERS'?: THE INTERDISCURSIVE ALLIANCE OF AUROBINDO GHOSE AND SISTER NIVEDITA Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves' The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell' A Joint 'Cry for Battle' 'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links 4. 'ABLE TO SING THEIR SONGS': SOLOMON PLAATJE'S MANY-TONGUED NATIONALISM A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend' 5. 'IMMEASURABLE STRANGENESS' BETWEEN EMPIRE AND MODERNISM: W. B. YEATS AND RABINDRANATH TAGORE, AND LEONARD WOOLF Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle