Announcing: "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish"

The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming book by J.F.A. Flodigarry, Senior Junior Lecturer at The Center for Horticulture, Hatcheries, and Agro-Business at the University of Hull: "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish," finally, a book without a subtitle, because printing costs are being diverted to imminent lawsuits for copyright infringement.

Contents

Introduction:

The Obligatory Historiography Section: From Lord Macaulay’s Note to the £5.99 Curry Lunch Special.

Chapter 1:

The Obligatory Theory Chapter: The Slippery Slope from Metrapole to Province.

Chapter 2:

Natives and the Datives: the Public Sphere and Dialogues in the Songs of the Mechuya.

Chapter 3:

Habitat, Habitus, Halibut: Reconstructing the urban landscape of Imperial fisheries.

Chapter 4:

Fried Print: The Reading Habits of Fish Consumers, Humble Functionaries in Her Majesties Services, and Post Property Zamindaris and Memsahibs (Not in that Order).

Chapter 5:

Provincials Educating the Natives: The Transliteration of Irish Sea Shanties and the Formation of the Indian National Congress.

Chapter 6:

Fisherman’s Wife, Fisherman’s God: Re-Enscribing the Matsya Avatar.

Post Script:

Edo Ergo Sum: of the Migration of Indian Taste and Manners to post Imperium London (No Empire, No Longer).

Appendices Include Recipes. (Its a Surprise).

Initial Reviews:

“The greatest Subaltern Studies book written since ‘Provincializing Europe,’ a must read for all serious South Asian Scholars. It shows us a way beyond nationalism and Imperialism in modern Colonial History.” – The Journal of Social Theory.

“The most important work of Imperial historiography to be written in the past twenty years. A souring peace of theoretical rhetoric, which thoroughly historicizes the object of its inquiry. –The Journal of Subaltern Studies.

“I Don’t Speak Indian, Eat Spicy Food or Like Fish. Never before has a book been so clearly focused on theory and lacking in historical facts. It would have been better had it remained trees.” J.V. Nybster, University of Texas, Austin.

“I Don’t Speak British, Read Imperial Historians or Like Fish. Never before has a book been so devoid of theory and overburdened with facts.” –B.S. Debjoti, University of Chicago.

“A Wonderful First Blush at the topic. One misses the omission of the representation of Bombay Duck in orientalist narratives of the period and the glossing over of theatrical tradition of seafaring heros in Lollywood epics.” R.M. Huna, Memsahib and Cook-Book Writer.

Dedicated, naturally, to the coldest fish of them all...