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Black and White - The Anglo-Indian Identity in Recent English Fiction (Paperback)
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Black and White - The Anglo-Indian Identity in Recent English Fiction (Paperback)
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Loot Price R440
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Bryan was born into an "Anglo-Indian" family in 1952. His schooling
was completed in 1968, exclusively in "Anglo-Indian" schools,
which, up to that point in time at least, were identifiably
"Anglo-Indian." Growing up with an "us/them" attitude, the issue
was not a real problem until early research work in the field of
British Fiction on India brought to Bryan's notice the unchanging
negative profiling of the "Anglo-Indian" in books on the theme.
Full-fledged research on the "Anglo-Indian" identity ( which
culminated in a PhD from the University of Madras in 2010) threw up
the picture of a minimal human species that combined the worst
traits of East and West. Since Kipling's refrain was so blindly
accepted in the nineteenth century, and most of the twentieth
century, writers--both Indian and Western--blatantly vilified the
"Anglo-Indian," in life as in fiction. This book is an attempt to
set down an accurate record, by examining some of the latest (and
not so new) books on the exclusive subject. It also calls to
account the horrendous and often unforgivable errors made by some
writers and many critics. Today, more than ever before,
"Anglo-Indians" are completely at home, in India, as well as in
other parts of the English-speaking world. It is hoped that, in
time, a clearer, more humane picture of the real "Anglo-Indian"
will emerge, as it must, when understanding erases the dark images
of the past.
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