Title: Empire Writing
Subtitle: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (Oxford World's Classics)
First published: September 23, 1998
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.
Subjects: Colonies, English literature, Imperialism, Commonwealth literature (English), Literary collections, Imperialism in literature, English literature (collections), 19th century, English literature (collections), 20th century
Places: Great Britain, Commonwealth countries
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century