Maps of Englishness : writing identity in the culture of colonialism / Simon Gikandi
- Bib ID:
- 3016669
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gikandi, Simon
- Description:
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- New York : Columbia University Press, c1996
- xxi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0231105983 (acid-free paper) (cloth)
- 0231105991 (acid-free paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Colonial Culture and the Question of Identity. In the Shadow of Englishness. Identity in the Field of Empire. Reading the Maps of Englishness
- 2. Through the Prism of Race: Black Subjects and English Identities. Carlyle, Mill and the Question of Blackness. Alterity in the Postimperial Age
- 3. Englishness and the Culture of Travel: Writing the West Indies in the Nineteenth Century. The Ideologies of Imperial Travel. The Racial Economy of Travel
- 4. Imperial Femininity: Reading Gender in the Culture of Colonialism. Mary Seacole: In and Out of Englishness. Locating Mary Kingsley
- 5. Belated Englishness: Modernism, Narrative, and Late Colonialism. The Colonial Aesthetic. The Uses of Primitivism
- 6. Beyond Empire and Nation: Writing Identity After Colonialism. Writing in the Postimperial Aporia. Masks of Englishness: Postcoloniality in The Satanic Verses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.
- Subject:
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- English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- British -- Travel -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Nationalism -- England -- History -- 19th century
- Group identity in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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