Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective /
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 ofte...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.