A. O. Hume's artistic journalism as an intertext (on the example of pamphlets of 1886-1887)

• Published in: Филология: научные исследования no. 10; pp. 89 - 96
• Main Author: Volkova, Anna Andreevna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2024
• ISSN: 2454-0749; 2454-0749
• DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2024.10.69428

The subject of this article is the intertextuality in the pamphlets ("The Old Man's Hope", "The Tidal Wave, or the Progress of political activity in India", "The Star in the East, or the Bengali National League") of the British colonial figure, founder of the Indian National Congress Allan Octavian Hume, created at the initial stage of the existence of this organization – in 1886-1887. The place and significance of using someone else's text (letters and articles by the author's opponents, official documents, texts of works of fiction and precedent texts), quotations from modern and classical literature in the literary journalism of A. O. Hume, understood as part of the Anglo-Indian literature of the Victorian era, are considered. The article defines the ways of using quotations and reminiscences by the author to enhance the impact on the reader. The methods of intertext research in A. O. Hume's journalism are receptive, cultural-historical methods and a system-functional approach. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that for the first time it examines the political pamphlets of A. O. Hume from a literary standpoint. The author comes to the conclusion that intertextuality, widespread in the journalism of the Victorian era, is also manifested in the Anglo-Indian literature of the XIX century, which is exemplified by the pamphlets under study, but has its own peculiarities related to addressing colonial issues and the population of colonies. The appeal to the precedent text promotes Hume's dialogue with the reader – an educated Englishman or a representative of the Indian intelligentsia, and intertextual elements serve to create an emotionally expressed tone of pamphlets, become a means of manipulating readers' opinions, a means of irony and sarcasm, with which the publicist denounces his political opponents.