A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writing of Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood (review)
American screens; going further, she claims that Britain Colonized is "a critical vigilante, on the alert for capitalist reterritorialization at the expense of literature, culture, and identity" (228). The slippage between the terms vigilance and vigilante opens up an interesting space for the activity of Jeffers's study. Vigilance seems to describe the longstanding task of criticism: keeping a watchful eye, attending to detail and subtle movements, reading with patience. The vigilante is by contrast not patient, is concerned with intervention rather than careful attentiveness, and operates outside of but also in the name of the law. Jeffers does not try to resolve these contrary positions, and her activity as a reader at its best moments could be characterized by both figures.