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Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective / edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, English--History.
- National characteristics, English.
- National characteristics, British--History.
- National characteristics, British.
- Postcolonialism--Great Britain--History.
- Postcolonialism.
- Imperialism.
- Nationalism--Great Britain--History.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 21, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857453334
- 0857453335
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