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1 online resource (501 pages). |
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Cross/Cultures
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Cross/cultures.
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Post-Empire Imaginaries?: Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: How to Do Things with Empires; CONCEPTUALIZING EMPIRES, MAPPING EMPIRES; Maps of Empires Past; (Re)Writing History: Pankaj Mishra, Niall Ferguson, and the Definitions of Empire; The Hermeneutics of Empire: Imperialism as an Interpretation Strategy; Exploring for the Empire: Franklin, Rae, Dickens, and the Natives in Canadian and Australian Historiography and Literature. |
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"As if Empires Were Great and Wonderful Things":A Critical Reassessment of the British Empire DuringWorld War Two in Louis de Bernières' Captain Corelli'sMandolin, Mark Mills' The Information Officer and KazuoIshiguro's When We Were Orphans(POST)EMPIRE IMAGINARIES IN HISTORICAL MEDIA; Travelling through (Post- )Imperial Panoramas: British Epic Writing and Popular Shows, 1740s to 1840s; "No One Belongs Here More Than You": Travel Ads, Colonial Fantasies, andAmerican Militarism; The Bonds of Empire: (Post- )Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series; CONTESTED IMAGINARIES, PERILOUS BELONGING. |
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Teaching the Empire: Lessons About (In)Dependence: Teacher Figures as Metonyms for the Australian NationDIFFERENT IMAGINARIES: COMPARING EMPIRES; The Ottoman Imaginary ofEvliya Ҫelebi: From Postcolonialto Postimperial Rifts in Time; "Imagine a Country Where We AreAll Equal": Imperial Nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak's Ottoman Utopia; British (Post)Colonial Discourse and (Imagined) Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo's Londinium to Caesar's Britain and Gaul. |
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Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood:Othello, the Jews of Portobuffole, andthe Post-Empire ImaginaryJohannesburg Zoologica: Reading the Afropolis Through the Eyes of Lauren Beukes' Zoo City; Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; Something is Foul in the State of Kerala: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; Conflicting Models of Agency in Andrea Levy's The Long Song (2010); Notes on the Contributors and Editors; Index. |
| Summary |
Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter's Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires explores the legacies of different empires across various media, focusing on the spatial, temporal, and critical dimensions of what the editors term the post-empire imaginary. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Richter, Virginia.
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Print version: Buchenau, Barbara. Post-Empire Imaginaries? : Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004300705 |
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900430228X |
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9789004302280 (electronic book) |
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