Inter-imperiality
Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance
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Published on 2. November 2020
390 pages
978-1-4780-1261-0 (ISBN)
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Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée.
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Laura Doyle is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of several books, including Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Theoretical Introduction. Between States 1
Part I. Co-Constituted Worlds
1. Dialectics in the Longue Durée 35
2. Refusing Labor's (Re)production in The Thousand and One Nights 68
Part II. Convergence and Revolt
3. Remapping Orientalism among Eurasian Empires 95
4. Global Revolts and Gothic Interventions 121
5. Infrastructure, Activism, and Literary Dialectics in the Early Twentieth Century 156
Part III. Persisting Temporalities
6. Rape, Revolution, and Queer Male Longing in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World 195
7. Inter-imperially Neocolonial: The Queer Returns of Writing in Powell's The Pagoda 227
Conclusion. A River Between 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 331
Index
Theoretical Introduction. Between States 1
Part I. Co-Constituted Worlds
1. Dialectics in the Longue Durée 35
2. Refusing Labor's (Re)production in The Thousand and One Nights 68
Part II. Convergence and Revolt
3. Remapping Orientalism among Eurasian Empires 95
4. Global Revolts and Gothic Interventions 121
5. Infrastructure, Activism, and Literary Dialectics in the Early Twentieth Century 156
Part III. Persisting Temporalities
6. Rape, Revolution, and Queer Male Longing in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World 195
7. Inter-imperially Neocolonial: The Queer Returns of Writing in Powell's The Pagoda 227
Conclusion. A River Between 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 331
Index
