Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:8th Jun '11
Should be back in stock very soon
Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions to represent both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism. He discusses a wide range of writers, from Auden, Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Larkin to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan.Key Features* Explores concepts and critical terms such as 'British national literature', 'new ethnicities', 'migrancy' and 'hybridity'* Case studies of postwar texts include: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood, Tony Harrison's V, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Leila Aboulela's Minaret and Ian McEwan's Saturday
...is an admirably lucid cultural materialist analysis of the period from the end of the Second World War to the present. -- Ashley Dawson, College of Staten Island, CUNY * College Literature 39.3 *
An admirably lucid cultural materialist analysis of the period from the end of Second World War to the present, and of the literary texts through which writers sought to grapple with and represent Britain's reconfigured position in a world that - all democratizing and developmental rhetoric to the contrary - remains structured by the most brutal forms of imperial power. -- Ashley Dawson, College of Staten Island * College Literature 39.3: Summer 2012 *
A very well researched, well argued, richly textured, and very rewarding read especially for students of colonial and postcolonial studies regardless of subject concentration. -- Baba G Jallow, Creighton University * Interventions 14:3 *
Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies suggests many fruitful ways in which one can read the intersections between empire’s legacy and post-war British literature, opening up territory for future studies. -- Huw Marsh, Queen Mary, University of London * Postcolonial Text, Vol 8, No 1 *
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
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 studylays bare how colonial cultural legacies are everywhere palpable within this landscape. -- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
ISBN: 9780748639014
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Weight: 304g
200 pages