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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493187203321

Titolo

Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective / / edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-85745-333-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

320.5409171/241

320.5409171241

Soggetti

National characteristics, English - History

National characteristics, British - History

Postcolonialism - Great Britain - History

Imperialism

Nationalism - Great Britain - History

Nationalism - Colonies - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Colonies History

Great Britain Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Empire and After; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1. Nation & Empire; CHAPTER 1. "As White As Ours": Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse; CHAPTER 2. Writing about Englishness: South Africa's Forgotten Nationalism; CHAPTER 3. Passports, Empire, Subjecthood; CHAPTER 4. Friends Across the Water British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms; CHAPTER 5. Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad's The Secret Agent; PART II. Postcolonial Legacies

CHAPTER 6. Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Albumand "My Son the Fanatic"CHAPTER 7. Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness and Whiteness; CHAPTER 8. Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness; CHAPTER



9. All the Downtown Tories Mourning Englishness in New York; CONTRIBUTORS; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of ""Englishness"" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of Englishness have too often been limited by insular conceptions of national literature, culture, and history, which serve to erase or marginalize the colonial and postcolonial locations in which British national identity has been articulated. This volume breaks new ground by drawing together a range of disciplinary approaches in order to res