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The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Hopkins studies in modernism.
- Hopkins studies in modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
- Literature and society--Commonwealth countries.
- Literature and society.
- Postcolonialism--Great Britain.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource 310 p..)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Peripheral Sense of an Ending
- The Last Colonial
- The Lateness of Empire
- Restless Identities, Wayward Communities
- The Temporality of Belonging
- 1 Henry James and the Perversity of Empire
- The Pervert's Guide to England
- The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Writer
- An Absent-Minded Imperialist
- Late America
- 2 James Joyce and the Negative Community
- The Law of Sameness
- Let Them In, Let Him Stay
- The Unavowable Anthology
- A House for Mr. Bloom
- 3 Doris Lessing and Late Realism
- Permanent Settlement, Imminent Departure
- In Pursuit of Realism
- History Is Now and England
- Living in the End Times
- 4 V. S. Naipaul and the Rhetoric of Enchantment
- Knowledge Not Purchased with the Loss of Power
- The Colonial Phenomenology of Perception
- L'Enfance Retrouvée
- A Home at the End of Empire
- Epilogue. Time of the Other
- The Politics of Shared Immanence
- Citizens and Subjects
- Untimely Worlds
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-4136-5
- 9781421441375
- OCLC:
- 1272993971
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