Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:29:34 +0800 (SST)
From: salil-AT-singnet.com.sg (Salil Tripathi)
Subject: Re: Pedantic Postcolonial Point


The Indian writer, Anita Desai, wrote an excellent essay in the New Republic, sometime in 1984 or 1985, touching upon this issue: America's obsession with things British. It was written when "Upstairs, Downstairs" was being screened, as was the Raj Quarter and (I think) Brideshead Revisited; the fascination with Holmes and Masterpiece Theater, and Passage to India, being screened in the movie halls.

- Salil




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