Empire and after
Subtitle: Englishness in postcolonial perspective
By: edited by Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar
Contributors: MacPhee, Graham, 1968-; Poddar, Prem
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781845453206
Subjects: National characteristics, English -- History; National characteristics, British -- History; Postcolonialism -- Great Britain -- History; Imperialism; Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History; Nationalism -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Great Britain -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Nationalism beyond the nation-state / Graham MacPhee & Prem Poddar; title: "As white as ours" : Africa, Ireland, imperial panic, and the effects of British race discourse / Enda Duffy; title: Writing about Englishness : South Africa's forgotten nationalism / Vivian Bickford-Smith; title: Passports, empire, subjecthood / Prem Poddar; title: Friends across the water : British orientalists and Middle Eastern nationalisms / Geoffrey Nash; title: Under English eyes : the disappearance of Irishness in Conrad's The secret agent / Graham MacPhee; title: Brit bomber : the fundamentalist trope in Hanif Kureishi's The black album and "My son the fanatic" / Sheila Ghose; title: Crisis of identity? : Englishness, Britishness, and whiteness / Bridget Byrne; title: Conserving purity, labouring the past : a tropological evolution of Englishness / Colin wright; title: All the downtown Tories : mourning Englishness in New York / Matthew Hart