THE CESSPOOL OF EMPIRE: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED

Autor:	Yumna Siddiqi
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature History Literature and Literary Theory biology business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Tragedy Face (sociological concept) Empire Crocodile Sister South american biology.animal Phenomenon Wife business media_common
Zdroj:	Victorian Literature and Culture. 34:233-247
ISSN:	1470-1553 1060-1503
DOI:	10.1017/s1060150306051138
Popis:	ASTRIKING NUMBER OF CHARACTERSin Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories who return to England after a sojourn in the colonies have an outlandish aspect. One, a contorted and bilious ex-soldier, owns a pet Indian mongoose. Another has lost a leg to a crocodile in the Ganges and has a poison-toting Andaman Islander in tow. A third keeps a fiendish hound and passes his South American wife off as his sister. A fourth returns from South Africa with a “blanched” face and a furtive manner. Many of these returned colonials are portrayed as menacing, and their presence in England precipitates a crisis, either a crime or a mysterious tragedy. In actual fact, return from the colonies to the metropole was a routine phenomenon, and returned colonials were familiar figures on the metropolitan landscape. Why does Doyle depict the phenomenon of return from Empire as so problematic if it was in fact quite commonplace?
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