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Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective
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- Creator
- edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 211 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1845453204, 9781845453206, 0857453335, 9780857453334
- OCLC
- ocn844720446, ocn125403009
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Nationalism beyond the nation-state / Graham MacPhee & Prem Poddar -- "As white as ours" : Africa, Ireland, imperial panic, and the effects of British race discourse / Enda Duffy -- Writing about Englishness : South Africa's forgotten nationalism / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Passports, empire, subjecthood / Prem Poddar -- Friends across the water : British orientalists and Middle Eastern nationalisms / Geoffrey Nash -- Under English eyes : the disappearance of Irishness in Conrad's The secret agent / Graham MacPhee -- Brit bomber : the fundamentalist trope in Hanif Kureishi's The black album and "My son the fanatic" / Sheila Ghose -- Crisis of identity? : Englishness, Britishness, and whiteness / Bridget Byrne -- Conserving purity, labouring the past : a tropological evolution of Englishness / Colin wright -- All the downtown Tories : mourning Englishness in New York / Matthew Hart
Subjects
- National characteristics, English -- History.
- National characteristics, British -- History.
- Postcolonialism -- Great Britain -- History.
- Imperialism.
- Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History.
- Nationalism -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
- Great Britain -- Civilization.