Elleke Boehmer is Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, and author of Colonial Literature (1995), and three novels: Screens Against the Sky (1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993), and Bloodlines (2000).

... a timely work ... part of a growing and welcome movement towards historicization in postcolonial literary studies ... Boehmer's study is valuable in the way it foregrounds neglected texts, and suggests new possibilities for reading and novel critical perspectives on late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century literatures in English.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; 1. Anti-imperial interaction across the colonial borderline: Introduction, The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman. ; 2. India the starting point: cross-national self-translation in 1900s Calcutta. ; 3. 'But Transmitters'?: The interdiscursive alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita. ; 4. 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's many-tongued nationalism. ; 5. 'Immeasurable strangeness' between empire and modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, and author of Colonial Literature (1995), and three novels: Screens Against the Sky (1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993), and Bloodlines (2000).

... a timely work ... part of a growing and welcome movement towards historicization in postcolonial literary studies ... Boehmer's study is valuable in the way it foregrounds neglected texts, and suggests new possibilities for reading and novel critical perspectives on late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century literatures in English.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; 1. Anti-imperial interaction across the colonial borderline: Introduction, The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman. ; 2. India the starting point: cross-national self-translation in 1900s Calcutta. ; 3. 'But Transmitters'?: The interdiscursive alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita. ; 4. 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's many-tongued nationalism. ; 5. 'Immeasurable strangeness' between empire and modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX