Doble / Unknown / Liburd British culture after empire

Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5975-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 197, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Doble, Josh

Liburd, Liam

Parker, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Living in the bush of ghosts – Elleke Boehmer
Introduction: Rhodesia and the 'Rivers of Blood' – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker

Part I: Institutions of empire
1 'Bloomsbury bazaar': Daljit Nagra at the diasporic museum – John McLeod
2 Anthropology at the end of empire – Katherine Ambler
3 'He is not a "racist" but should not be appointed director of LSE': The impact of colonial universities on the University of London – Dongkyung Shin

Part II: Writing identity, conflict and class
4 Beyond experience: British anti-racist non-fiction after empire – Dominic Davies
5 Empire, war and class in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) – Ed Dodson

Part III: Racial others, national memory
6 White against empire: Immigration, decolonisation and Britain’s radical right, 1954–1967 – Liam J. Liburd
7 Racism, redistribution, redress: The Royal Historical Society and Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change – Shahmima Akhtar
8 Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain – Astrid Rasch

Part IV: At home in postcolonial Britain
9 Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction – Tasnim Qutait
10 Black, beautiful and essentially British: African Caribbean women, belonging and the creation of Black British beauty spaces in Britain (c. 1948–1990) – Mobeen Hussain
11 Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s – Steve Bentel
12 Tribe Arts, Tribe Talks – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd, Emma Parker, Samran Rathore and Tajpal Rathore

Afterword: Disorder and displacement – Bill Schwarz

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Josh Doble is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Liam J. Liburd is Assistant Professor in Black British History at the University of Durham

Emma Parker is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Keele University