Post-empire imaginaries? : : anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires / / edited by Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures, ASNEL-papers ; v. 182 volume 19
• Author: Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Buchenau, Barbara,; Richter, Virginia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 182/19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (501 p.)
• Notes: Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of GNEL/ASNEL, held May 18-20, 2012 at the University of Bern.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: How to Do Things with 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 /; Teaching the Empire: Lessons About (In)Dependence: Teacher Figures as Metonyms for the Australian Nation /; The Ottoman Imaginary of Evliya Ҫelebi: From Postcolonial to Postimperial Rifts in Time /; “Imagine a Country Where We Are All 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 /; “As if Empires Were Great and Wonderful Things”: A Critical Reassessment of the British Empire During World War Two in Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Mark Mills’ The Information Officer and Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans /; 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, and American Militarism /; The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series /; Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood: Othello, the Jews of Portobuffole, and the Post-Empire Imaginary /; Johannesburg 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 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900430228X
• ISSN: 0924-1426
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter.

Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.