Postwar British literature and postcolonial studies /
MacPhee, Graham,1968-
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-173) and index.
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.
Imperialism in literature.
English literature
Postcolonialism.