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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: ‘Mother Country’
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Author Studies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
'This innovative and important study offers new perspectives on a range of twentieth century colonial writers from the Indian subcontinent, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean, and Africa. In particular, it offers new perspectives on Britain by allowing us to encounter English or British attitudes, landscapes, and events through the eyes of different groups of visitors and immigrants from the colonies - visitors who have already been conditioned by British forms of education. Taking up the concept of 'contact zones' as existing not just in colonial or 'other' worlds, this book shows how 'Englishness', 'Britishness', and various other racial, ethnic, and national identities have been constructed in changing ways through a century of interaction between peoples and cultures in Britain itself.......
The three authors are able to draw on their combined expertise to give a thoroughly rich, scholarly, and rewarding discussion of each of these writers.' - C.L. Innes, Professor of Postcolonial Literature, School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
LEELA GANDHI is Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University. She is the author of Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction and co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.
SUE THOMAS is Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University. Her monographs include The Worlding of Jean Rhys (1999) and Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952): A Bibliography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Authors: Ann Blake, Leela Gandhi, Sue Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599277
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ann Blake, Leela Gandhi and Sue Thomas 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-73744-6Published: 11 June 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40898-6Published: 01 January 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59927-7Published: 27 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Topics: Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, British and Irish Literature