Imperial culture and the Sudan : authorship, identity and the British empire / Lia Paradis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paradis, Lia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sudan--Politics and government.

Sudan.

Sudan--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Egypt.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2020.

Summary:

"General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity. Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire : why were these colonial administrators characterized as 'adventurers'? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudan's experience tells us a lot about the British Empire - how it was made, consumed and remembered."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Prologue The Story Begins

Section I Metropolitan Britain Writes the Sudan

Chapter 1 A Child's Journey to the Sudan

Chapter 2 General Gordon's Legacy

Chapter 3 The Colonial Administration Course

Chapter 4 The Adventurer and the Administrator

Section II Authoring the 'Sudani' Identity

Chapter 5 Establishing a British-Sudan Correspondence Circuit

Chapter 6 Creating a British-Sudan Epistolary Community

Chapter 7 The 1924 Mutiny-Narrative and Alienation

Section III Remembering the Sudan

Chapter 8 Writing the Return

Chapter 9 Change of Masters

Chapter 10 Epilogue-Remembering the Sudan

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788319027

1788319028

9781788319003

1788319001

OCLC:

1152756006