At home and abroad in the empire
Subtitle: British women write the 1930s
By: edited by Robin Hackett, Freda Hauser, and Gay Wachman.
Contributors: Hackett, Robin, 1963-; Hauser, Freda, 1955-; Wachman, Gay, 1943-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780874130416
Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women authors, English -- 20th cenutry -- Political and social views; Imperialism in literature; Race in literature; War in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Nineteen thirties; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mysterious new empire : Agatha Christie's colonial murders / Phyllis Lassner; title: Exhibitions and repetitions : Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight and the world of Paris, 1937 / Linda Camarasana; title: Worldly chickens in a homely empire : accounts of colonialism in Sylvia Townsend Warner's The salutation / Freda S. Hauser; title: "Almost ashamed of England being so English" : Woolf and ideas of Englishness / Julia Briggs; title: Hyphenated identity in the "woman's novel" : racisms and Betty Miller's Farewell Leicester Square / Claire M. Tylee; title: Colonizing an anti-imperialist text : Marguerite Yourcenar's rendering of The waves into French / Geneviève Brassard and Marianne Guénot-Hovnanian; title: Nancy Cunard's Black man and white ladyship as surrealist tract / Tory Young; title: The first white Rastafarian : Sylvia Pankhurst, Haile Selassie, and Ethiopia / Barbara Winslow; title: Rebecca West : constructing a public intellectual through letters of the 1930s / Bonnie Kime Scott; title: Modernist melancholy : Edith Sitwell's Black sun / Jean Radford; title: The mysterious politics of Dorothy Sayers / Lillian S. Robinson.