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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 innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- 1900 - 1999

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In the New Literatures in English, nature has long been a paramount issue: the environmental devastation caused by colonialism has left its legacy, with particularly disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the world. At the same time, social and cultural transformations have altered representations of nature in postcolonial cultures and literatures. It is this shift of emphasis towards the ecological that is addressed by this volume. A fast-expanding field, ecocriticism covers a wide range of theories and areas of interest, particularly the relationship between literature and other ‘texts’ and the environment. Rather than adopting a rigid agenda, the interpretations presented involve ecocritical perspectives that can be applied most fruitfully to literary and non-literary texts. Some are more general, ‘holistic’ approaches: literature and other cultural forms are a ‘living organism’, part of an intellectual ecosystem, implemented and sustained by the interactions between the natural world, both human and non-human, and its cultural representations. ‘Nature’ itself is a new interpretative category in line with other paradigms such as race, class, gender, and identity. A wide range of genres are covered, from novels or films in which nature features as the main topic or ‘protagonist’ to those with an ecocritical agenda, as in dystopian literature. Other concerns are: nature as a cultural construct; ‘gendered’ natures; and the city/country dichotomy. The texts treated challenge traditional Western dualisms (human/animal, man/nature, woman/man). While such global phenomena as media (‘old’ or ‘new’), tourism, and catastrophes permeate many of these texts, there is also a dual focus on nature as the inexplicable, elusive ‘Other’ and the need for human agency and global responsibility.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Ecology in literature --- Nature in literature --- Ecology in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Nature in poetry --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Commonwealth of Nations authors

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London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism during the modernist period. Through their writing in and about the imperial metropolis, colonial women authors not only remapped the city, they also renegotiated the position of women within the empire. This book examines the significance of gender to the interwoven nature of empire and modernism. As transgressive figures of modernity, writers such as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Una Marson and Sarojini Naidu brought their own versions of modernity to the capital, revealing the complex ways in which colonial identities 'traveled' to London at the turn of the twentieth century. Anna Snaith's timely and original study provides a new vantage point on the urban metropolis and its artistic communities for scholars and students of literary modernism, gender and postcolonial studies, and English literature more broadly.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Women travelers --- English literature --- Travelers, Women --- Travelers --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- London (England) --- Intellectual life --- Imperialism in literature. --- Decolonization in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Modernism (Literature)

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Poetry --- English literature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- American literature --- Authors --- Bio-bibliography --- History and criticism --- Biography --- -American literature --- -Authors --- -Commonwealth literature (English) --- -English literature --- -British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- Writers --- Litterateurs --- Literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- -Bio-bibliography --- -Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- British literature --- English literature - Bio-bibliography --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism --- American literature - History and criticism --- English literature - History and criticism --- American literature - Bio-bibliography --- Authors - Biography --- Commonwealth literature (English) - Bio-bibliography

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This glossary offers an interdisciplinary guide to the various concepts, practices and cultural products that have come to be known as 'postcolonial'. In addition to providing an essential orientation map for undergraduates taking courses in postcolonial literature and theory and postcolonial studies more generally, its range makes it a indispensable reference tool for those who have been working in the field for some time.

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