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The Commonwealth Pen: An Introduction to the Literature of the British Commonwealth » Read Now
by A. L. McLeod. 246 pgs.

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...interested in or studying Commonwealth literature nor a check list of names...evaluated. The phenomenon of Commonwealth literature is of quite recent growth...was the first...
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Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture » Read Now
by Rowland Smith. 216 pgs.

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Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism » Read Now
by Gita Rajan, Radhika Mohanram. 234 pgs.

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At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the idea of empire. This book examines various theories of empire, and how they create networks of discourse in contemporary postcolonial settings. In exploring the idea of empire, the contributors consider such constructions as nation and...
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At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the idea of empire. This book examines various theories of empire, and how they create networks of discourse in contemporary postcolonial settings. In exploring the idea of empire, the contributors consider such constructions as nation and modernity, identity politics, the status and role of exiles, and border intellectuals. Postcolonial texts considered include literature and films.
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English Postcoloniality: Literatures from around the World » Read Now
by Radhika Mohanram, Gita Rajan. 220 pgs.

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Examines the interplay between language, literature, and culture in postcolonial countries of the world.
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Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1822-1922 » Read Now
by Anindyo Roy. 216 pgs.

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This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the...
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This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.
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Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott's Discrepant Cosmopolitan Modernism, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Charles W. Pollard. 21 pgs.

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...Walcotts Another Life in relation to Wordsworths Prelude and Joyces Portrait. Awakened Conscience: Studies in Commonwealth Literature. Ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah. New Delhi:...
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African Literature, African Critics: The Forming of Critical Standards, 1947-1966 » Read Now
by Rand Bishop. 213 pgs.

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"From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book." Modern Fiction Studies
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Class, Culture, and the Colonial Context: The Status of Women in Buchi Emecheta's the Joys of Motherhood, in International Fiction Review » Read Now
by Teresa Derrickson. 12 pgs.

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...Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta," Journal of Commonwealth Literature 22.1 (1987): 159. (17) Katrak 167. (18) In...Womens Literary Tradition," Research in African...
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Poetry in Hong Kong: The 1990s, in World Literature Today » Read Now
by Agnes Lam. 10 pgs.

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...Kong By AGNES LAM , literature has often been considered...Motherland China, the British Commonwealth, or even other societies...be viewed as postcolonial literature...
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Zen Comedy in Postcolonial Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day', in Mosaic » Read Now
by John Rothfork. 24 pgs.

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...Rothfork Although Commonwealth literature (from the Commonwealth...readers of postcolonial and Commonwealth literature know only English and...Criticism." The Journal of...
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Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 186 pgs.

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Adopting the concept of diaspora to the experience of people of Indian subcontinental origin dispersed in other areas, Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing. In Reworlding, he has commissioned fourteen critical essays that examine such diverse areas of the diaspora as the...
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Adopting the concept of diaspora to the experience of people of Indian subcontinental origin dispersed in other areas, Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing. In Reworlding, he has commissioned fourteen critical essays that examine such diverse areas of the diaspora as the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Singapore, Britain, North America, and Africa and such representative writers as Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Kamala Markandaya, Bharati Mukherjee, and Raja Rao. Underlying this international body of literature is the haunting presence of India and the anguish of personal loss that generate an aesthetics of "reworlding."
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After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie » Read Now
by Michael Edward Gorra. 207 pgs.

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In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire--Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie--have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on...
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In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire--Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie--have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait, in The Raj Quartet, of the character Hari Kumar--a seeming oxymoron, an "English boy with a dark brown skin," whose very existence undercuts the belief in an absolute distinction between England and India. He then turns to the opposed figures of Naipaul and Rushdie, the two great novelists of the Indian diaspora. Whereas Naipaul's long and controversial career maps the "deep disorder" spread by both imperialism and its passing, Rushdie demonstrates that certain consequences of that disorder, such as migrancy and mimicry, have themselves become creative forces. After Empire provides engaging and enlightening readings of postcolonial fiction, showing how imperialism helped shape British national identity--and how, after the end of empire, that identity must now be reconfigured.
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The Indian Novel in England, in Contemporary Review » Read Now
by Nicholas Wong. 4 pgs.

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...including magical realism and what is known as Commonwealth literature. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years...I think we are in a position to conquer English...
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Sri Lanka's "Ethnic" Conflict in Its Literature in English, in World Literature Today » Read Now
by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke. 4 pgs.

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...form of postal orders. 5 Quoted by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke, "Sri Lanka" ( 1984 ), Journal of Commonwealth Literature , 20:2 ( 1985 ), p. 124. 6 C. Day Lewis, "Preface", in...
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Prizing "Otherness": A Short History of the Booker, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Graham Huggan. 22 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...assimilationist paradigms (e.g. "Commonwealth Literature") they seek to replace...Manifold Voice: Studies in Commonwealth Literature (New York: Barnes...
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Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity » Read Now
by Ian Baucom. 249 pgs.

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In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the...
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In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity.Analyzing imperial crisis zones--including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton riots of 1981--Baucom asks if the building of the empire completely refashioned England's narratives of national identity. To answer this question, he draws on a surprising range of sources: Victorian and imperial architectural theory, colonial tourist manuals, lexicographic treatises, domestic and imperial cricket culture, country house fetishism, and the writings of Ruskin, Kipling, Ford Maddox Ford, Forster, Rhys, C.L.R. James, Naipaul, and Rushdie--and representations of urban riot on television, in novels, and in parliamentary sessions. Emphasizing the English preoccupation with place, he discusses some crucial locations of Englishness that replaced the rural sites of Wordsworthian tradition: the Morant Bay courthouse, Bombay's Gothic railway station, the battle grounds of the 1857 uprising in India, colonial cricket fields, and, last but not least, urban riot zones.
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