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

• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Empire and after
• ISBN: 0-85745-333-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820272703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II