Post-empire imaginaries? : Anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires / edited by Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter, with Marijke Denger.
"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 innov...
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Leiden :
Brill Rodopi,
[2015]
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182. ASNEL papers ; 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: How to do things with empires / Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter
- Conceptualizing empires, mapping empires
- 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
- Different imaginaries : comparing empires
- The Ottoman imaginary of Evliya Çelebi : 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. Perez
- (Post)Empire imaginaries in historical media
- 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
- Contested imaginaries, perilous belonging
- 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.