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Semi-detached empire : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present /
In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia's apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions--between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813929583 081392958X |