Post-empire imaginaries? : : anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires /

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

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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...

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Superior document:Cross/cultures, ASNEL-papers ; v. 182 volume 19
:
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Barbara Buchenau , Virginia Richter and Marijke Denger
  • Introduction: How to Do Things with Empires / Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter
  • Maps of Empires Past / Alfred Hiatt
  • (Re)Writing History: Pankaj Mishra, Niall Ferguson, and the Definitions of Empire / Mayannah N. Dahlheim
  • The Hermeneutics of Empire: Imperialism as an Interpretation Strategy / Rainer Emig
  • Exploring for the Empire: Franklin, Rae, Dickens, and the Natives in Canadian and Australian Historiography and Literature / Kerstin Knopf
  • Teaching the Empire: Lessons About (In)Dependence: Teacher Figures as Metonyms for the Australian Nation / Eva–Maria Müller
  • The Ottoman Imaginary of Evliya Ҫelebi: From Postcolonial to Postimperial Rifts in Time / Donna Landry
  • “Imagine a Country Where We Are All Equal”: Imperial Nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak’s Ottoman Utopia / Elena Furlanetto
  • British (Post)Colonial Discourse and (Imagined) Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo’s Londinium to Caesar’s Britain and Gaul / Silke Stroh
  • “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 / Eva M. Pérez
  • Travelling through (Post-)Imperial Panoramas: British Epic Writing and Popular Shows, 1740s to 1840s / Anne–Julia Zwierlein
  • “No One Belongs Here More Than You”: Travel Ads, Colonial Fantasies, and American Militarism / Judith Raiskin
  • The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series / Timo Müller
  • Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood: Othello, the Jews of Portobuffole, and the Post-Empire Imaginary / Cecile Sandten
  • Johannesburg Zoologica: Reading the Afropolis Through the Eyes of Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City / Elsie Cloete
  • Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People / Karsten Levihn–kutzler
  • Something is Foul in the State of Kerala: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things / Michael Meyer
  • Conflicting Models of Agency in Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010) / Jana Gohrisch
  • Notes on the Contributors and Editors / Barbara Buchenau , Virginia Richter and Marijke Denger
  • Index / Barbara Buchenau , Virginia Richter and Marijke Denger.

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