“Why do they hate us so much?”: Women’s Vulnerability and Resistance in Julian Rathbone’s The Mutiny (2007)
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https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2025-47.1.6Keywords:
women , vulnerability, resistance, neo-Victorian, The MutinyAbstract
Neo-Victorianism is concerned with the re-writing of the Victorian past and establishing parallelisms with the present; also, with giving voice to muted discourses. Britain was a huge Empire in the nineteenth century and the Indian Mutiny was one of the most violent episodes in its history. Postcolonial neo-Victorian narratives are a memorial practice that denounces the imperial atrocities long kept silent, Julian Rathbone’s The Mutiny (2007) being an example. The aim of this article is thus twofold: firstly, to analyse the trope of the Indian Mutiny as a massacre where violence and atrocities were committed on both the Indian and the British side through the critical lens of postcolonial neo-Victorianism and vulnerability studies; and, secondly, to discuss the role of women, both native and English, in the tragedy and its aftermath.
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