Cultures of Empire Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries a Reader
- List Price: $170.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
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With the work of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and others, the field of postcolonial studies has grown enormously in the past two decades, as the cultural impact of colonialism on both the colonizers and the colonized has become the object of intense scrutiny. Cultures of Empire collects the most sensitive and up-to-date examples of this scholarship in an important new volume.
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A substantial introduction by historian Catherine Hall synthesizes the new literature on cultures of imperialism and establishes a context for the essays that follow. The individual case studies take up a wide array of topics, from notions of masculinity among Canadian fur trappers, to the linkages between law and sexuality in Trinidad, to nineteenth-century Egyptian travel literature. Taken as a whole, these essays provide a fresh look at the historical relationships between race, gender, and power. Theoretically sophisticated and historically rigorous, Cultures of Empire will be indispensable to students of the colonial experience.
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