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Empire Writing
An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
Edited by Elleke Boehmer
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196x129mm
978-0-19-955559-8
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Paperback
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30 July 2009
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- From Lord Tennyson to Rabindranath Tagore, memsahibs to Creole balladeers, this unique anthology gathers together imperial and native primary texts in a variety of genres
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.'
(Joseph Conrad)
`Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.'
(Toru Dutt)
This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English,
interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: voices of imperial; adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. Drawn from India, Africa, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, this wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Comprehensive notes and full biographies ensure that this is one of the most
compelling, readable and academically valuable source books on the period.Readership: Victorian, 1890s and early modernist courses and modules in both poetry and prose. Courses on Colonial and Post-colonial literature, including interdisciplinary courses in history focusing on colonialism. Comparative courses looking at colonial and post
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Edited by Elleke Boehmer, Hildred Carlile Professor in English, Royal Holloway, University of London
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"it is hard to fault Boehmer's choice of texts and the perspicacity of her comments" - Essays in Criticism
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