03664nam 2200685 a 450 991113547090332120251116152203.00-8135-6656-80-8135-3641-3(CKB)1000000000033576(OCoLC)614527111(CaPaEBR)ebrary10075344(SSID)ssj0000124932(PQKBManifestationID)11136719(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000124932(PQKBWorkID)10023906(PQKB)11641543(MiAaPQ)EBC3032097(BIP)77576882(BIP)9043245(EXLCZ)99100000000003357620030909d2004 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrColonial strangers women writing the end of the British empire /Phyllis Lassner1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20041 online resource (253 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8135-3416-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Strangers at the Gates: The Middle East -- Olivia Manning: The Gates Besieged-World War II -- Muriel Spark and Ethel Mannin: The Gates Breached and the Struggle for Postcolonial Identity -- Chapter 2: Strangers in a Walled Garden: Rumer Godden's Anglo-India -- Chapter 3: Red Strangers: Elspeth Huxley's Africa -- Chapter 4: Island Strangers: Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Phyllis Bottome -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.This title aims to revolutionize modern British literary studies by showing how our interpretations of the postcolonial must confront World War II and the Holocaust. Lassner's analysis reveals how writers such as Muriel Spark, Olivia Manning, Rumer Godden, Phyllis Bottome, Elspeth Huxley and Zadie Smith insist that World War II is critical to understanding how and why the British Empire had to end. to the end of fascism. Drawing on memoirs, fiction, reportage and film adaptations, the book explores the critical perspectives of women who are passionately engaged with Britian's struggle to yield the last vestiges of imperial power. British women as agents of imperialism by questioning their own participation in British claims of moral righteousness and British politics of cultural exploitation. The authors discussed take centre stage in debates about connections between the racist ideologies of the Third Reich and the British Empire.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismImperialism in literatureDecolonizationGreat BritainColoniesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory20th centuryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismDecolonization in literatureColonies in literatureSex role in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Imperialism in literature.DecolonizationColoniesHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Decolonization in literature.Colonies in literature.Sex role in literature.820.9/358Lassner PhyllisMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911135470903321UNINA