Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur

Boccardi, Mariadele

Abstract

The essay examines how collecting and textual accumulation provided the British Empire with a range of symbolic practices to extert indirect control over the colonised territory. The chapter centres on J.G. Farrell's satire of imperial ideology in his 1973 novel The Siege of Krishnapur, to argue that in a post-imperial context such practices acquire metafictional value.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 241-255
• Series Title: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
• Series Number: 8
• Book Title: The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature
• ISBN: 9783039113774
• Keywords: taxonomies, textuality, J.G. Farrell, The Seige of Krishnapur
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000847
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