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Tables of Contents for Writing Under the Raj
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Orientalizing Rape
1
36
1 Rape, the Body, and the Sacrifices of Desire: British Romantic Poetry and Representations of the Colonial Harem
37
47
2 The Temple Dancer: Eroticism and Religious Ecstacy
84
25
3 Mobilizing Chivalry: Rape in National Epics about the Indian Uprising of 1857
109
28
4 Hostage to History: The Rani of Jhansi in Romances about the Indian Mutiny
137
28
5 Lost Children: Nationalism and the Reinscription of the Gendered Body
165
28
6 Mixed Couples: The New Woman and Interracial Marriage
193
36
7 Modernism, Irony, and the Erasure of Rape: Recontextualizing A Passage to India
229
38
Conclusion: A Glance at Rape in Postcolonial Fiction
267
6
Notes
273
20
Bibliography
293
22
Index
315