Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century.
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Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century.
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Add this copy of Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of to cart. $32.90, like new condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Columbia University Press.
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Like New. Size: 6x0x9; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan. ] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. xxi, 268 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. "Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century. He provides detailed readings of the works of Trollope, Carlyle, and others; through the narratives of imperial women travelers such as Mary Kingsley and Mary Seacole; and through Africanist texts by Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and postcolonialists such as Salman Rushdie and Joan Riley." From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
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Fine. Not Issued with a Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 268 pages. "Why did fornerly colonialized people, many of whom had spent generations fighting against colonial domination, seem to invest so much in cultural institutions-such as the school, Shakespeare, and cricket-that are closely associated with imperial conquest and rule? " FINE HARDCOVER, NEW.
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Add this copy of Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of to cart. $128.83, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 1997 by Columbia University Press.
