Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective /
Ranging from analyses of contemporary culture, postcolonial writing, political rhetoric and postimperial memory after 9/11, this collection demonstrates that far from being parochial and self-involved, the question of Englishness offers an important avenue for thinking about the politics of national...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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Obsah:
- 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.