Empire and After

Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-790-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macphee, Graham

Poddar, Prem

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

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

Über Autor(innen)

Poddar, Prem
Prem Poddar is Associate Professor of English at Aarhus University. He is the author of Violent Civilities (Aarhus UP, 2003) and the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh UP/ Columbia UP, 2005).

Macphee, Graham
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).

Prem Poddar is Associate Professor of English at Aarhus University. He is the author of Violent Civilities (Aarhus UP, 2003) and the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh UP/ Columbia UP, 2005).