Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism / Edition 1

by Simon Gikandi

Overview

Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century. He provides detailed readings of the works of Trollope, Carlyle, and others; through the narratives of imperial women travelers such as Mary Kingsley and Mary Seacole; and through Africanist texts by Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and postcolonialists such as Salman Rushdie and Joan Riley.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231105996
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/06/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.01(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.64(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Simon E. Gikandi is professor of English language and literature at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

1. Colonial Culture and the Question of Identity
2. Through the Prism of Race: Black Subjects and English Identities
3. Englishness and the Culture of Travel: Writing the West Indies in the Nineteenth Century
4. Imperial Femininity: Reading Gender in the Culture of Colonialism
5. Belated Englishness: Modernism, Narrative, and Late Colonialism
6. Beyond Empire and Nation: Writing Identity After Colonialism

What People are Saying About This

R. Radhakrishnan

Clarifies some of the fog surrounding postcoloniality. Working critically across the metropolitan-third world divide, Maps of Englishness enables relational readings between histories and cultures.

— R. Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Editorial Reviews

Clarifies some of the fog surrounding postcoloniality. Working critically across the metropolitan-third world divide, Maps of Englishness enables relational readings between histories and cultures.

R. Radhakrishnan