English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Great Britain - Travel Essays & Descriptions, Politics & Literature, Travel Writing - History & Criticism, Great Britain - Gen
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Overview
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.Book Details
Published
March 26, 1997
Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, c1996.
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780231105996