Lia Paradis

Imperial Culture and the Sudan

Authorship, Identity and the British Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity.Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire - why were these colonial administrators characterized as 'adventurers'? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudan's experience tells us a lot about the British Empire - how it was made, consumed and remembered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781788318990
• ISBN-10: 1788318994
• Artikelnr.: 58347559

Autorenporträt

Lia Paradis is Chair of the History department at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Prologue The Story Begins Section I Metropolitan Britain
Writes the Sudan Chapter 1 A Child's Journey to the Sudan Chapter 2 General
Gordon's Legacy Chapter 3 The Colonial Administration Course Chapter 4 The
Adventurer and the Administrator Section II Authoring the "Sudani" Identity
Chapter 5 Establishing a British-Sudan Correspondence Circuit Chapter 6
Creating a British-Sudan Epistolary Community Chapter 7 The 1924
Mutiny-Narrative and Alienation Section III Remembering the Sudan Chapter 8
Writing the Return Chapter 9 Change of Masters Chapter 10
Epilogue-Remembering the Sudan Bibliography Index