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Empire and Indifference

Chattopadhyaya, Utathya

Victorian Literature and Culture, 2019-12, Vol.47 (4), p.835-842 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

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  • Title:
    Empire and Indifference
  • Author: Chattopadhyaya, Utathya
  • Subjects: 19th century ; Abolition of slavery ; Architecture ; Archives & records ; British Empire ; Cultural history ; Emancipation of slaves ; Essays ; Juvenile offenders ; Literature ; Nonfiction ; Political economy ; Politics ; Race ; Review ; Social exclusion ; Victorian period ; Visual culture ; Women ; Zulu language
  • Is Part Of: Victorian Literature and Culture, 2019-12, Vol.47 (4), p.835-842
  • Description: The Caribbean's middleness within anthropological literature has been recognized and progressively untangled by scholars like Sidney Mintz and David Scott. The dialectics that figure the Caribbean as a perennially contingent space, always embodying too little and too much of the values that bound discourses of colonial modernity, frame the arguments in both Victorian Jamaica and Empire of Neglect. Both books respond to the problem of an ill-fitting Caribbean, especially after the formal abolition of slavery gave way to apprenticeships and inaugurated an uneven process of gaining political freedoms. Victoria's six-decade reign over the British Empire witnessed the expansion of liberal capitalism, reformulations of state and planter relationships, and movements for political rights under empire. Insurgencies and rebellions dotted the landscape of empire, from India (1857–59) and Jamaica (1865) to the Zulu territories (1879) and Alexandria in Egypt (1879–82). Empire responded to subjects who exposed its shaky footings through greater repression, social reform, and ballasting the civilizing mission from above. From below, colonized subjects inhabited empire in resistant, calculative, and often contradictory modes that revealed the undoing of imperial ambitions in practice. The Caribbean's marginalization in post-emancipation political economy, as the British Empire occupied more territory in Africa and Asia, produced many such complex habitations of empire that superficially may appear, pace Mintz, to be culturally midway between there and here.
  • Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
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