Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur
(2009)
Book Chapter
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 hi... Read More about Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur.