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T1 India in the victorian popular fiction, analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle's The sign of four
A1 Rodríguez Escarda, Cristina
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Colonialism
K1 Post-colonialism
K1 Arthur Conan Doyle
K1 The Sign of Four
K1 Sherlock Holmes
K1 India
K1 Great Britain
K1 Colonialismo
K1 Post-colonialismo
K1 El Signo de los Cuatro
K1 Gran Bretaña
AB Colonialist ideologies, the effects of colonization and the colonial relations between twocountries may be apparently hidden in a literary work. Nevertheless, the contrapuntaland post-colonial reading of a literary work can reveal all these matters. Arthur ConanDoyle’s novella The Sign of Four includes colonialist ideologies and the colonial process of India in the second half of the nineteenth century. This novel acted as a double mechanism that diffused a colonialist ideology to the British population and, at the same time, reflected an India that was not entirely ‘real’. This happens through Orientalism, a discourse of the construction of the ‘other’, a form of authority and a phenomenon constructed by intellectuals, artists and writers, among others, constructed by the naturalizing of a wide range of Orientalist assumptions and stereotypes.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25578
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25578
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 04-may-2024