Postwar British literature and postcolonial studies

Postwar British literature and postcolonial studies

by Macphee, Graham

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This text reassesses current approaches to postwar writing in Britain in light of ongoing debates within postcolonial studies about the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, the cultural implications of globalisation and the strengthening of alternative conceptions of national identity across the UK.

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  • Full title :Postwar British literature and postcolonial studies / Graham MacPhee.

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This text reassesses current approaches to postwar writing in Britain in light of ongoing debates within postcolonial studies about the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, the cultural implications of globalisation and the strengthening of alternative conceptions of national identity across the UK.

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  • Publication Date:2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xviii, 180 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780748639014, 0748639012, 9780748639007, 0748639004
  • oclc:ocn639461712
  • LC Classification:PR478.I53
  • Dewey Decimal:820.90014

Table of Contents

Beyond Bloomsbury -- Little England and global Englishes -- Decolonisation and the Cold War: Auden's 'Fleet visit' -- From British to US hegemoney: Greene's The quiet American -- From 'civilisation' to 'culture': Churchill and Orwell -- Reinventing the West: T.S. Eliot -- The disappearance of colonial labour: Lamming, Selvon and Bennett -- Decolonisation in reverse: from Larkin to Powell after Empire -- Postcolonial studies as insurgent field and contested concept -- What's wrong with 'national culture'? Williams and British cultural studies -- Dislocating identity: Fanon and Hall -- The new circuits of imperialism: Sivanandan -- The politics of migrancy: Bhabha -- Frameworks: national, transnational and global -- Late colonial parallax: Samuel Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Bringing the war back home? John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's dance -- The fire next time: Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread beat and blood -- Enemies within: Tony Harrison's V -- In memoriam: Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day -- Through whose eyes? Leila Aboulela's Minaret -- Histories of the present: Ian McEwan's Saturday and Andrea Levy's Small island.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1945- Englisch English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Entkolonialisierung Imperialism in literature Impérialisme dans la littérature Literature Literaturtheorie Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… postcolonialism Postcolonialisme Postkoloniale Literatur Postkolonialism

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Macphee, Graham

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