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DISSENTERS AND MAVERICKS: WRITING ABOUT INDIA IN ENGLISH
From: Comparative Literature
Date: 20040101
Author:Brantlinger, Patrick
DISSENTERS AND MAVERICKS: WRITING ABOUT INDIA IN ENGLISH, 1765-2000. By Margery Sabin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 239 p.
In a series of well-executed, insightful essays on both British writers (Horace Walpole to Wilkie Collins) and Indian writers (Niracl Chaudhuri to Pankaj Mishra), Margery Sabin explores "why dissent matters to literature" (p. 3). Sabin champions particularity, individuality, even "oddity" as measures of truth and honesty against whatever is hegemonic, whether imperialism and racism or postcolonial literary and cultural theory. She also champions ...
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