200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss of Empire and its uncanny presence ‘at home’. It delves into histories of British colonialism, the ‘end’ of the Empire, decolonisation, post-Second World War nation-building, and devolution; all of which resurface in four selected novels of the late twentieth and early... Read more
Introduction 1. The ‘Mother Country’ in Marina Warner’s Indigo 2. Shakespeare and Black Britons in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood 3. Trespassing the Vicarage Grounds: Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George 4. The Council Home in Zadie Smith’s NW Conclusion. Index
Biography
Soody Gholami received a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been awarded the Open Society University Network (OSUN) Residential Fellowship as part of the Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative and her post-doctorate project is ‘Decolonizing the Curriculum in Post-Brexit Britain’.
