Empire and After : Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective /

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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 limit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bickford-Smith, Vivian (Contribuidor), Byrne, Bridget (Contribuidor), Duffy, Enda (Contribuidor), Ghose, Sheila (Contribuidor), Hart, Matthew (Contribuidor), MacPhee, Graham (Contribuidor, Editor ), Nash, Geoffrey (Contribuidor), Poddar, Prem (Contribuidor, Editor ), Wright, Colin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]
Temas:
Imperialism.
National characteristics, British > History.
National characteristics, English > History.
Nationalism > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Nationalism > Great Britain > History.
Postcolonialism > Great Britain > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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