Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction -- Cross-national Intertextuality -- Networks of Resistance -- The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman -- India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta -- 'From all points do the paths converge': A Unique Encounter -- A Warlike Spirituality -- The Cross-Meshed Calcutta Context -- Interdiscursivity: Of Kali and the Gita -- 'She is in me as she is in you': Nivedita's Kali-Worship -- 'But Transmitters'?: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita -- Aurobindo Ghose in England: 'the spirit alone that saves' -- The Young Margaret Noble: 'the ocean through an empty shell' -- A Joint 'Cry for Battle' -- 'To assail and crush the assailant': Intertextual Links -- 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism -- A Barolong, a Gentleman: An Exemplary Career -- Nationalism and the Transatlantic 'People's Friend' -- 'Immeasurable Strangeness' between Empire and Modernism: W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf -- Towards a Theory of Modernism in the Imperial World -- Leonard Woolf: Reluctant Imperialism -- The Cultural Nationalist as Modernist -- Conclusion: A Narrative Claim upon the Jungle
Summary
This volume explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index
