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Empire and after : Englishness in postcolonial perspective / edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar - New York : Berghahn Books, 2007 - 211 p. ; 24 cm.

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

ISBN: 9781845453206 (hbk.) RM165.00 1845453204 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
National characteristics, English--History
National characteristics, British--History
Postcolonialism--History--Great Britain
Imperialism
Nationalism--History--Great Britain
Nationalism--Colonies--History--Great Britain

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Colonies--History
Great Britain--Civilization