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Empire and After

Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
1. Aufl.

von: Graham MacPhee, Prem Poddar
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.10.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9780857453334
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	218

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Titelbeschreibung

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 resituate the relationship between British national identity and Englishness within a global framework. Ranging from the literature and history of empire to analyses of contemporary culture, postcolonial writing, political rhetoric, and postimperial memory after 9/11, this collection demonstrates that far from being parochial or self-involved, the question of Englishness offers an important avenue for thinking about the politics of national identity in our postcolonial and globalized world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication Acknowledgements
 Introduction: Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State Graham MacPhee & Prem Poddar
 PART I: NATION AND EMPIRE
 Chapter 1. "As White As Ours": Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse Enda Duffy
 Chapter 2. Writing About Englishness: South Africa’s Forgotten Nationalism Vivian Bickford-Smith
 Chapter 3. Passports, Empire, Subjecthood Prem Poddar
 Chapter 4. Friends Across the Water: British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms Geoffrey Nash
 Chapter 5. Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad’s The Secret Agent Graham MacPhee
 PART II: POSTCOLONIAL LEGACIES
 Chapter 6. Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and "My Son the Fanatic" Sheila Ghose
 Chapter 7. Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness, and Whiteness Bridget Byrne
 Chapter 8. Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness Colin Wright
 Chapter 9. All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York Matthew Hart
 Notes on Contributors Index

Autorenportrait

Graham MacPhee has taught at universities in Britain and the US and is currently Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (Continuum, 2002).