Imperial Infrastructure And Spatial Resistance In Colonial Literature 1880 1930

Download or read book Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 written by Dominic Davies and published by Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonial literature of the British Empire often depicted the imperial infrastructure: railways, telegraph wires, steamships and canals. With a focus on writers in South Africa and India, the author uses 'infrastructural reading' to demonstrate the connection between the depictions of these urban developments and anti-imperial resistance.