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Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players and Postcolonial TheoryComic Representations of Indigenous Enterprise in Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players (1977)

Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players and Postcolonial Theory: Comic Representations of Indigenous... [Cultural representations of non-European indigenous enterprise are dogged by the false necessity to prove that indigenous innovations and sciences are as efficacious and successful as Anglo-American technologies and colonial enterprises. This positivist project is doomed, indigenous enterprise cannot appear or represent itself as the equivalent of colonial enterprise without falling prey to the colonial project of exploiting the resources and labour power of the colony. The centre-periphery relation determines cultural representations of indigenous enterprise. Depicted as the exact inversion of colonial enterprise, indigenous enterprises soon begin to function as the inferior half of colonial enterprise. By discursively situating indigenous enterprise as the mirror opposite of colonial enterprise, cultural texts like Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) construct indigenous inventions and innovations, not as the equal of colonial enterprise but as its auxiliary, enhancing the productivity of the imperial economy, and the colony becomes the space for the recuperation from colonial enterprise’s failures and mistakes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players and Postcolonial TheoryComic Representations of Indigenous Enterprise in Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Satyajit Ray’s The Chess Players (1977)

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-52353-5
Pages
130 –168
DOI
10.1057/9780230509665_4
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[Cultural representations of non-European indigenous enterprise are dogged by the false necessity to prove that indigenous innovations and sciences are as efficacious and successful as Anglo-American technologies and colonial enterprises. This positivist project is doomed, indigenous enterprise cannot appear or represent itself as the equivalent of colonial enterprise without falling prey to the colonial project of exploiting the resources and labour power of the colony. The centre-periphery relation determines cultural representations of indigenous enterprise. Depicted as the exact inversion of colonial enterprise, indigenous enterprises soon begin to function as the inferior half of colonial enterprise. By discursively situating indigenous enterprise as the mirror opposite of colonial enterprise, cultural texts like Daniel Mann’s The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) construct indigenous inventions and innovations, not as the equal of colonial enterprise but as its auxiliary, enhancing the productivity of the imperial economy, and the colony becomes the space for the recuperation from colonial enterprise’s failures and mistakes.]

Published: Sep 28, 2015

Keywords: British Rule; Chess Player; East India Company; Mirror Opposite; Chess Game

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