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



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Titolo: Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective / / edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 320.5409171/241
320.5409171241
Soggetto topico: National characteristics, English - History
National characteristics, British - History
Postcolonialism - Great Britain - History
Imperialism
Nationalism - Great Britain - History
Nationalism - Colonies - Great Britain - History
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies History
Great Britain Civilization
Persona (resp. second.): MacPheeGraham
PoddarPrem
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
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ISBN: 0-85745-333-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820272703321
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