Post-empire imaginaries? : anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires / edited by Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference (23rd : 2012 : Universität Bern)

Contributor:

Buchenau, Barbara, editor.

Richter, Virginia, editor.

Series:

Cross/Cultures 182/19.

Cross/cultures, ASNEL-papers ; 0924-1426 ; v. 182 volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Barbara Buchenau , Virginia Richter and Marijke Denger

Introduction: How to Do Things with Empires / Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter

Maps of Empires Past / Alfred Hiatt

(Re)Writing History: Pankaj Mishra, Niall Ferguson, and the Definitions of Empire / Mayannah N. Dahlheim

The Hermeneutics of Empire: Imperialism as an Interpretation Strategy / Rainer Emig

Exploring for the Empire: Franklin, Rae, Dickens, and the Natives in Canadian and Australian Historiography and Literature / Kerstin Knopf

Teaching the Empire: Lessons About (In)Dependence: Teacher Figures as Metonyms for the Australian Nation / Eva–Maria Müller

The Ottoman Imaginary of Evliya Ҫelebi: From Postcolonial to Postimperial Rifts in Time / Donna Landry

“Imagine a Country Where We Are All Equal”: Imperial Nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak’s Ottoman Utopia / Elena Furlanetto

British (Post)Colonial Discourse and (Imagined) Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo’s Londinium to Caesar’s Britain and Gaul / Silke Stroh

“As if Empires Were Great and Wonderful Things”: A Critical Reassessment of the British Empire During World War Two in Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Mark Mills’ The Information Officer and Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans / Eva M. Pérez

Travelling through (Post-)Imperial Panoramas: British Epic Writing and Popular Shows, 1740s to 1840s / Anne–Julia Zwierlein

“No One Belongs Here More Than You”: Travel Ads, Colonial Fantasies, and American Militarism / Judith Raiskin

The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series / Timo Müller

Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood: Othello, the Jews of Portobuffole, and the Post-Empire Imaginary / Cecile Sandten

Johannesburg Zoologica: Reading the Afropolis Through the Eyes of Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City / Elsie Cloete

Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People / Karsten Levihn–kutzler

Something is Foul in the State of Kerala: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things / Michael Meyer

Conflicting Models of Agency in Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010) / Jana Gohrisch

Notes on the Contributors and Editors / Barbara Buchenau , Virginia Richter and Marijke Denger

Index / Barbara Buchenau , Virginia Richter and Marijke Denger.

Notes:

Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of GNEL/ASNEL, held May 18-20, 2012 at the University of Bern.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30228-X

OCLC:

919438356

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004302280 DOI