Flora Annie Steel

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-77212-260-2
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging from fiction to journalism to letter writing, from housekeeping manuals to philanthropic activities. These essays, by recognized experts on her life and work, will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and readers in the fields of British India and Women’s Studies.

Contributors: Amrita Banerjee, Helen Pike Bauer, Ralph Crane, Gráinne Goodwin, Alan Johnson, Anna Johnston, Danielle Nielsen, LeeAnne M. Richardson, Susmita Roye

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roye, Susmita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction / Susmita Roye
1 Women Who Serve in Times of Need Recreating an Uprising in Flora Annie Steel’s Voices in the Night
DANIELLE NIELSEN
2 The Other Voice
Agency of the Fallen Women in Flora Annie Steel’s Novels
AMRITA BANERJEE
3 Narrative Strategy as Hermeneutic
Reading In the Permanent Way as Colonial Theory
LEEANNE M. RICHARDSON
4 Flora Annie Steel and Indian Girlhood
HELEN PIKE BAUER
5 The Transgressing Purdahnashin and
Violated Purdah Space
Kipling’s “Beyond the Pale” and Steel’s “Faizullah”
SUSMITA ROYE
6 “Going Jungli”
Flora Annie Steel’s Wild Civility
ALAN JOHNSON
7 How to Dine in India
Flora Annie Steel’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper
and Cook and the Anglo-Indian Imagination
RALPH CRANE AND ANNA JOHNSTON
8 “Yours truly, Flora Annie Steel”
Gender, Empire, and Indian Pressure Politics in the
Times’s Correspondence Columns, 1897–1910
GRÁINNE GOODWIN

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roye, Susmita
Susmita Roye is Associate Professor of English at Delaware State University in the USA. She serves on the board of directors of Northeast Modern Language Association and the editorial board of South Asia Research journal. For her research, she has won numerous prestigious national and international scholarships, including an Award for Faculty by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the US, an Overseas Research Scholarship in the UK, and a Junior Research Fellowship by the Government of India. Her monograph on pioneering South Asian women writers of fiction in English is forthcoming. Her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Commonwealth Literature, English Studies, Callaloo, Kunapipi, South Asia Research, and Studies in the Humanities. She has co-edited two volumes, The Male Empire under the Female Gaze: The British Raj and the Memsahib (2013) and Experiencing Otherness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (2015). She has also contributed to numerous volumes of essays, including Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: A Critical Anthology, and Subaltern Vision: A Study in Postcolonial Indian English Text, and has reviewed books for South Asia Research and Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.