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100 1 Anderson, Felise L
245 10 Surveillance, spectatorship and space in the 20th century
novel
300 233 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-
09, Section: A, page: 3275
500 Adviser: Jon R. Hegglund
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 2011
520 My dissertation examines acts of seeing and looking in the
late colonial and newly postcolonial societies of
twentieth-century South Asia and Ireland. It argues that
such acts are instrumental for maintaining, resisting, and
destabilizing the dynamics of power existing between
representatives of British imperial power and colonized
populations. Fictional representations of these dynamics
of power and the contested spaces wherein these power
dynamics are at play abound within the twentieth-century
novel. By presenting readers with the complete, albeit
distanced, gazes of third-person omniscient narrators or
the more immediate and personal gazes of first-person
narrators, the form of the novel encourages readers to
perform the role of spectator. This project focuses upon
two specific acts of looking---acts of surveillance and
acts of spectatorship---as they are fictionalized in
selected Irish and South Asian novels. My hypothesis is
that the necessity for engaging in surveillance and
spectatorship is heightened in the contested spaces of
late colonial and newly postcolonial societies because
resistance and challenges to the established order---
either that of the imperial ruler or that of the post-
imperial political regime---is also heightened. The form
of the novel is especially useful for an analysis of how
acts of surveillance and spectatorship impact existing
dynamics of power because narrative mirrors the practice
of surveillance by encouraging readers to engage in acts
of seeing and looking. Ultimately, what is at stake is
determining the ways in which acts of seeing and looking
along with the form of the novel identify methods by which
individuals or groups of individuals in fictionalized
colonial and postcolonial societies mount resistance to
the political, social, or cultural power with which
surveilling entities are endowed and in so doing resist
and dismantle oppressive political and social institutions
and regimes. The primary texts that are discussed in this
project are The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen, A
Passage to India by E. M. Forster, A Star Called Henry by
Roddy Doyle, Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane, and
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
590 School code: 0251
650 4 Literature, Asian
650 4 Literature, English
690 0305
690 0593
710 2 Washington State University.|bEnglish
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