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Psychoanalysis British and Indian Literature Subaltern Theory. Scripting anxiety/scripting identity: Indian mutiny, history, and the colonial imaginary, 1857-1911 Scripting Anxiety/Scripting Identity examines the impact of the 1857 Indian Mutiny on British and Indian cultural consciousness and collective memory. I focus on anxious articulations about material objects, racial and sexual identities, and religion to argue these are symptomatic of a greater problem in mutiny narratives. Namely, the failure to situate the event, write or define it, in context of grand narratives. I show anxieties about objects, identities, and religion can be read from two corresponding directions. First, as discursively representing the dangers posed by the rebellion to political hegemony and established symbolic systems. And, second, as symptomatic of desires for reclaiming authority and re-constituting subjectivities. My task has been one of accentuating the tension between these two, suggesting their responsibility in the construction of the event’s affective dispensations in the Anglo-Indian mindscape, and finally, presenting a hypothetical theorization on the relationship between subaltern insurgency and colonialism. This dissertation is the centerpiece of an active research agenda that looks at, first, representations of the Mutiny in “postcolonial” British and Indian writings in comparison to colonial narratives; and, second, how anxiety-ridden articulations about the Mutiny map onto present-day transnational concerns over “homeland” insecurities as manifested in literature, film, and new media. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-07-12T21:43:09Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Basu Thakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622447 bytes, checksum: b835a9693b714d8a1fdd234b9d8d74c1 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-31T20:30:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Basu Thakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622441 bytes, checksum: a109bf96b5fffdd36e8668e4390eb889 (MD5) 1_Basu Thakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622447 bytes, checksum: b835a9693b714d8a1fdd234b9d8d74c1 (MD5) BasuThakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622441 bytes, checksum: a109bf96b5fffdd36e8668e4390eb889 (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 271b2a099145330ad6ba08167a497515 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-08-31T20:32:52Z Item is restricted until 2012-08-31T20:32:49Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-07T16:43:38Z Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Comparative and World Literature (ID: 762) University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 4 Basu Thakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622441 bytes, checksum: a109bf96b5fffdd36e8668e4390eb889 (MD5) 1_Basu Thakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622447 bytes, checksum: b835a9693b714d8a1fdd234b9d8d74c1 (MD5) BasuThakur_Gautam.pdf: 1622441 bytes, checksum: a109bf96b5fffdd36e8668e4390eb889 (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 271b2a099145330ad6ba08167a497515 (MD5) Blake, Nancy Goodlad, Lauren Blake, Nancy Goodlad, Lauren Hassan, Wail S. Basu, Anustup Pandharipande, Rajeshwari V. Basu Thakur, Gautam 2010-08-31T20:30:16Z 2010-08-31T20:30:16Z 2012-09-07T16:43:38Z 2010-08-31T20:30:16Z 2010-08 Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-07T16:43:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17038 en Copyright 2010 by Gautam Basu Thakur. Indian Mutiny Anxiety Postcolonial Studies Comparative & World Literature 1771 Comparative Literature 1120 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Comparative Litertre -UIUC 10KS1120PHD