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The pervasive presence of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 both in print media and popular fiction marked the shift of emphasis in the representation of the Indic Orient in American culture. The post-Insurgency codification of the natives as “vengeful,” “anarchic,” and “barbaric,” especially in print media, influenced the way contemporary popular authors narrativized imagined Indo-American encounters. By analyzing L. Clarke Davis’s Stranded Ship (1869) and Jane Goodwin Austin’s “The Loot of Lucknow” (1868) within the discursive context provided by American periodicals, this chapter contends that the narrative rendering of Indo-American encounters in popular fiction not only demystified the very rhetoric of “imperial denial” in American cultural and political discourses, but it also produced racial anxiety about Asiatic people.
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Thapa, A. (2017). Cast in Print: The Indian Mutiny, Asiatic Racial Forms, and American Domesticity. In: Arora, A., Kaur, R. (eds) India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s. The New Urban Atlantic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4_6
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