{"product_id":"empire-and-after-englishness-in-postcolonial-perspective-9781845457907","title":"Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe 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 often been limited by insular conceptions of national literature, culture, and history, which serve to erase or marginalize the colonial and postcolonial locations in which British national identity has been articulated. This volume breaks new ground by drawing together a range of disciplinary approaches in order to resituate the relationship between British national identity and Englishness within a global framework. Ranging from the literature and history of empire to analyses of contemporary culture, postcolonial writing, political rhetoric, and postimperial memory after 9\/11, this collection demonstrates that far from being parochial or self-involved, the question of Englishness offers an important avenue for thinking about the politics of national identity in our postcolonial and globalized world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"This is an intellectually rigorous collection of essays investigating the nature of \"Englishness\" both within and beyond national borders… [It] offers a useful and timely intervention into analyses of the continuing significance of empire in understanding English\/British identity and culture… the relationship of history to present circumstances, and the co-option of the \"past\" for political objectives, is a key theme… while several of its essays are grounded in the field of literature and contemporary culture, historians should not be tempted to overlook this important collection.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"The coherence of the volume derives from – and it is, in some respects a remarkably coherent volume – an introduction that anticipates, indeed, proves the theoretical coordinates through which the individual essays form their analyses.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"This excellent collection of essays addresses with great range and significant insight urgent questions that have long haunted and are again animating the relation of Englishness to Britishness, of nationalism to imperialism, of local cultural grammars to global political forms. In collecting the essays for the volume and in their own contributions to and introduction of it, the editors have done a superb job of reminding readers why the many paradoxes of \"Englishness\" are vital not only to the long history of the formal British empire but to the moment of flexible imperialism we currently inhabit. This is a timely and striking addition to the field.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Baucom\u003c\/b\u003e, Duke University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tDedication\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGraham MacPhee\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003ePrem Poddar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: NATION AND EMPIRE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e \"As White As Ours\": Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEnda Duffy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Writing About Englishness: South Africa’s Forgotten Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eVivian Bickford-Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Passports, Empire, Subjecthood\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePrem Poddar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Friends Across the Water: British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Nash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGraham MacPhee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: POSTCOLONIAL LEGACIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi’s \u003ci\u003eThe Black Album\u003c\/i\u003e and \"My Son the Fanatic\"\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSheila Ghose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness, and Whiteness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBridget Byrne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eColin Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMatthew Hart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042988097879,"sku":"9781845457907","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845457907.jpg?v=1750956539","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empire-and-after-englishness-in-postcolonial-perspective-9781845457907","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}