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Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (2009)
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Boccardi, M. (2009). Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur. In C. Patey, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature (241-255). Bern: Peter Lang

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.