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British Imperial Fiction, 1870-1940 traces the gradual process by which the colonial bureaucratic subject was constructed in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Daniel Bivona's study offers insightful readings of a number of influential writers who were involved in promoting the ideology of bureaucratic self-sacrifice, the most important of whom are Stanley, Kipling and T. E. Lawrence. He examines how this governing ideology is treated in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and George Orwell. By placing the complexities of individual texts in a much larger historical context, this study makes the original claim that the colonial bureaucrat played an ambiguous but nonetheless central role in both pro-imperial and anti-imperial discourse, his own power relationship with bureaucratic superiors shaping the terms in which the proper relationship between colonizer and colonized was debated.

English literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Administration --- History --- Colonies in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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1931, l’Exposition Coloniale. Quelques jours avant l’inauguration officielle, empoisonnés ou victimes d’une nourriture inadaptée, tous les crocodiles du marigot meurent d’un coup. Une solution est négociée par les organisateurs afin de remédier à la catastrophe. Le cirque Höffner de Francfort-sur-le-Main, qui souhaite renouveler l’intérêt du public, veut bien prêter les siens, mais en échange d’autant de Canaques. Qu’à cela ne tienne ! Les « cannibales » seront expédiés. Inspiré par ce fait authentique, le récit déroule l’intrigue sur fond du Paris des années trente – ses mentalités, l’univers étrange de l’exposition – tout en mettant en perspective les révoltes qui devaient avoir lieu un demi-siècle plus tard en Nouvelle-Calédonie.

Kanak (New Caledonian people) --- Colonies in literature --- Colonialism in literature --- New Caledonia --- Kanaka (New Caledonian people) --- Kanaka (New Caledonian people) - Fiction --- New Caledonia - Fiction

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"In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory. These investigations not only explore mid--nineteenth century resistance to the colonial enterprise but argue that Melville, using the discourse on cannibalism to critique colonialism, contributed to the production of resistance. Sanborn focuses on the representations of cannibalism in three of Melville's key texts--Typee, Moby-Dick, and "Benito Cereno." Drawing on accounts of Pacific voyages from two centuries and virtually the entire corpus of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, he shows how Melville used his narratives to work through the ways in which cannibalism had been understood. In so doing, argues Sanborn, Melville sought to move his readers through stages of possible responses to the phenomenon in order to lead them to consider alternatives to established assumptions and conventions--to understand that in the savage they see primarily their own fear and fascination. Melville thus becomes a narrator of the postcolonial encounter as he uncovers the dynamic of dread and menace that marks the Western construction of the "non-savage" human. Extending the work of Slavoj Zizek and Homi Bhabha while providing significant new insights into the work of Melville, The Sign of the Cannibal represents a breakthrough for students and scholars of postcolonial theory, American literary history, critical anthropology, race, and masculinity."--Publisher's description.

Melville, Herman --- Authors and readers --- Books and reading --- Cannibalism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Literature and anthropology --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- Reader-response criticism. --- History --- Melville, Herman, --- Political and social views. --- Imperialism in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Cannibalism in literature --- Reader-response criticism --- Colonies in literature --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman,

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The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over a hundred and fifty million people brought under British imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with and contested in Romanticism. Saree Makdisi argues that this process has to be understood in global terms, beyond the British and European viewpoint, and that developments in India, Africa, and the Arab world (up to and including our own time) enable us to understand more fully the texts and contexts of British Romanticism. New and original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott emerge in the course of this searching analysis of the cultural process of globalisation. Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.

Colonies in literature --- English literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Literature and society --- Modernism (Literature) --- Romanticism --- 820 "17/18" --- 820 "17/18" Engelse literatuur--18e en 19e eeuw. Periode 1700-1899.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- Engelse literatuur--18e en 19e eeuw. Periode 1700-1899.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Relying upon deconstruction, discourse analysis, and close examination of contemporary historical events, Mazoff identifies and explores the periodic "ruptures" in the texts - inconsistencies, contradictions, anomalies, and deflections - that underscore the tension between the "unsaid" (the real historical, economic, and social conditions) and the surface level of the narrative (the aesthetic and genre constraints). His analysis reveals the extent to which problems of allegiance, anxiety, and identity were inextricably involved in the colonial and national projects, an involvement which the poetry, despite its intentions, could neither mask nor resolve. Offering insight on canonical Canadian long poems from Thomas Cary's Abram's Plains to Isabella Valancy Crawford's Hugh and Ion as well as the works of many lesser-known writers, Anxious Allegiances will be of great interest to literary scholars as well as historians, political scientists, and communication theorists studying the political and economic discourses at work in imperial-colonial relations.

Canadian poetry --- Politics and literature --- Group identity in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Canadian poetry (English) --- Canadian literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects --- Canada --- In literature. --- Nationalism and literature --- Poésie canadienne --- Nationalisme et littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Canada dans la littérature --- Politics and government --- In literature --- Politique et gouvernement