India in Britain
India in Britain
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印度在英国
DOI：
10.1057/9780230392724_2
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2013
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Boehmer E
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这篇文章探讨了英国人和印度人在19世纪最后几十年提供的接触空间内，早期英国人和印度人之间的一些间接的、试探性的和想象的方面。我提到的间接--我将其描述为之字形和模糊--既体现在每个印度人和每个英国人之间的水平上，也体现在这些伙伴对遭遇的理解和表现上。这篇文章问，这些有点拐弯抹角、缺乏自信的尝试是以什么方式表达的。答案的开始可能在于传统公共领域之外的一个高度易受暗示的、分层的渠道，即诗歌的媒介，在某些情况下，是实验性的、现代的和前卫的，在某些情况下，是试探性初学者的作品。因此，下面介绍的三对组合中的每一对都至少包括一位诗人，这并不是偶然的。我建议，诗人们在他们的作品中以特别丰富、令人回味的方式探索印度和英国相遇的一些间接和迄今未知的维度。
This essay explores some of the indirect, tentative and imagined dimensions of early encounters between Britons and Indians within the spaces for contact that southern England made available in the final decades of the nineteenth century. The indirection I refer to – which I will describe as bothzigzagandfuzzy– manifests at the levels both ofwhathappened between, in each case, an individual Indian and an individual Briton, and alsohowthe connections were understood and represented by these partners to the encounter. The essay asks in what ways these somewhat roundabout and diffident attempts to reach out were expressed. The beginning of an answer may lie in a highly suggestible, layered channel outside the conventional public sphere, namely, the medium of poetry, in some cases experimental, modern andavant garde, in some cases the work of tentative beginners. It is no accident therefore that each of the three pairings featured below includes at least one poet. Poets, I suggest, explore in their work some of the oblique and hitherto uncharted dimensions of the Indian-British encounter in particularly rich, evocative ways.