Not at home in empire

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 482-493

  Guha, Ranajit ^a  

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EID: 0001292906     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448839     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Francis Yeats-Brown, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (New York, 1930), pp. 4-5
2. Aristotle, Metaphysics: Booh Γ, Δ, and ε, trans. Christopher Kirwan (Oxford, 1971), p. 54, D17
3. Aristotle, Metaphysica, vol.8 of The Works of Aristotle, trans. W. D. Ross, 2d ed. (Oxford, 1928), D17
4. G. W. F. Hegel, Logic, trans. William Wallace (Oxford, 1975), p. 161; see pp. 156-61
5. John Kaye, History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8, ed. G. B. Malleson, 6 vols. (London, 1898), 1:374
6. Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin, trans. and ed. Reidar Thomte and Albert B. Andersen (Princeton, N.J., 1980), p. 42; hereafter abbreviated CA
7. See Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (London, 1962), p. 179; hereafter abbreviated BT. I rely generally on section 30 of that work for this and related aspects of my argument here
8. See George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant," in "Shooting an Elephant" and Other Essays (New York, 1950), pp. 3-12; hereafter abbreviated "SE."
9. See "SE," pp. 3, 5, and 7-8 for assertions and innuendoes to such effect
10. Jacques Lacan, Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1954, vol.1 of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, trans. John Forrester, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller (New York, 1988), p. 68
11. See the editorial note on this point: "The Danish word Øiblikket (the moment) is figurative in the sense that it is derived from Øiets Blik (a blink of the eye). Cf. the German word Augenblick" (CA, p. 245 n. 21)
12. Yeats-Brown mentioned New Year's Eve of 1905 as the date of his first encounter with the uncanny of empire; see Yeats-Brown, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, pp. 3-13. Orwell joined the imperial service in Burma about twenty years later in 1926