Empire writing
Subtitle: an anthology of colonial literature, 1870-1918
By: edited with an introduction and notes by Elleke Boehmer.
Contributors: Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English); Imperialism -- Literary collections.; English literature -- 19th century.; English literature -- 20th century.; Commonwealth countries -- Literary collections.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Literary collections.
Description: "This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and startling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: voices of imperial adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists, and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists, and native interpreters." "Drawn from India, Africa, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, this wide-ranging selection embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments as well as challenging accepted categories and definitions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xliv]-liii) and index.