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Maps of Englishness : writing identity in the culture of colonialism / Simon Gikandi.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Gikandi, Simon
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, ℗♭1996.
Subjects:	English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism. Literature and society > Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century. Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century. National characteristics, English, in literature. Nationalism > England > History > 19th century. Group identity in literature. Travel writing > History. Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) British colonies. English prose literature. Literature and society. Nationalism. Travel writing. Travelers' writings, English. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Colonial culture and the question of identity
Through the prism of race: black subjects and english identities
Englishness and the culture of travel: writing the west indies in the nineteenth century
Imperial femininity: reading gender in the culture of colonialism
Belated englishness: modernism, narrative, and late colonialism
Beyond empire and nation: writing identity after colonialism.