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Ian BaucomPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR478.N37 B38 1999 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Analyzing imperial crisis zones–including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton riots of 1981–Baucom asks if the building of the empire completely refashioned England’s narratives of national identity. Emphasizing the English preoccupation with place, he discusses some crucial locations of Englishness that replaced the rural sites of Wordsworthian tradition: the Morant Bay courthouse, Bombay’s Gothic railway station, the battle grounds of the 1857 uprising in India, colonial cricket fields, and, last but not least, urban riot zones. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English literature — 20th century — History and criticism
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English) — History and criticism
- English literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Group identity in literature
- Decolonization in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Race in literature
- Great Britain — Colonies — History
- England — Civilization
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- 069100403x
- 0691016666
- 069100403x
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