Graham Macphee

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

AUTHOR-APPROVED Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson and Ania Loomba This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and global inequality. Each volume not only provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of scholarship and debate, but is also an original intervention in its own right. Each book includes: a time line; an introductory literature survey; discussion of critical, theoretical, historical and political debates; exemplary critical readings of literary texts; and further reading. Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies Graham MacPhee 'Graham MacPhee brilliantly follows the historical tracks of empire into the heartlands of post-war British literature, an area often assumed to be relatively untouched by colonial impacts and their contingent modernist entanglements. This timely and necessary study lays bare how colonial cultural legacies are everywhere palpable within this landscape.' Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford Re-assesses current approaches to postwar British writing in light of ongoing debates within postcolonial and globalization studies Graham MacPhee argues that the process of decolonization was far more uneven and contradictory than is often assumed, and needs to be understood as reinforcing the transition to a new structure of global hegemony as well as marking the end of formal European colonialism. This study examines poetry, drama, and fiction as well as cultural criticism, theory, and political discourse, and discusses a wide range of writers from George Orwell, Graham Greene, T.S. Eliot and Philip Larkin to Sam Selvon, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andrea Levy, Ian McEwan, and Leila Aboulela. Graham MacPhee is As

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780748639007
• ISBN-10: 0748639004
• Artikelnr.: 33872179

Autorenporträt

Graham MacPhee is Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University. He is the author of The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (Continuum, 2nd edn, 2007) and co-editor, with Prem Poddar, of Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (Berghahn, 2007).