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
9781845453206 (hbk.) RM165.00 1845453204 (hbk.)
National characteristics, English--History National characteristics, British--History Postcolonialism--History--Great Britain Imperialism Nationalism--History--Great Britain Nationalism--Colonies--History--Great Britain
Great Britain--Colonies--History Great Britain--Civilization