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Empire and After : Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective / ed. by Prem Poddar, Graham MacPhee.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845453206
  • 9780857453334
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.5409171/241 320.5409171241
LOC classification:
  • DA118 .E47 2010
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State -- Part I: Nation & Empire -- 1. “As White As Ours”: Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse -- 2. Writing About Englishness: South Africa’s Forgotten Nationalism -- 3. Passports, Empire, Subjecthood -- 4. Friends Across the Water: British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms -- 5. Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad’s The -- Part II: Postcolonial Legacies -- 6. Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and “My Son the Fanatic” -- 7. Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness, and Whiteness -- 8. Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness -- 9. All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State -- Part I: Nation & Empire -- 1. “As White As Ours”: Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse -- 2. Writing About Englishness: South Africa’s Forgotten Nationalism -- 3. Passports, Empire, Subjecthood -- 4. Friends Across the Water: British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms -- 5. Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad’s The -- Part II: Postcolonial Legacies -- 6. Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and “My Son the Fanatic” -- 7. Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness, and Whiteness -- 8. Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness -- 9. All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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