The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature
- ISBN-10
- 1421441373
- ISBN-13
- 9781421441375
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-11-02
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Philip Tsang
Description
Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today.
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