The Fiction Of Imperialism

Author : Phillip Darby
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041912752

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The Fiction of Imperialism by Phillip Darby Pdf

This book examines a range of fiction and criticism as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics.The Fiction of Imperialism attempts to promote dialogue between international relations and postcolonialism. It addresses the value of fiction to an understanding of the imperial relationship between the West and Asia and Africa. A wide range of fiction and criticism is examined as it pertains to colonialism, in North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics.The book begins by contrasting the treatment of cross-cultural relations in political studies and literary texts. It then examines the personal as a metaphor for the political in fiction depicting the imperial connection between Britain and India. This is paired with an analysis of African literary texts which takes as its theme the relationship between culture and politics. The concluding chapters approach literature from the outside, considering its apparent silence on economics and realpolitik, and assessing the utility of postcolonial reconceptualization.-- Renewal of interest in imperialism and literary texts about imperialism-- Examines a range of fiction and criticism as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics.-- First volume in a new series which deals with the differences between culture and politics as well as in ways of seeing and the sources that can be drawn on.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 071902420X

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Imperialism and Juvenile Literature by Jeffrey Richards Pdf

Many experts recognize that juvenile literature acts as an excellent reflector of the dominant ideas of an age; the values and fantasies of adult authors are often dressed up in fictional garb for youthful consumption. This collection examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, from the mid-19th century until the 1950s, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Arleen Schäfer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346396266

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Imperialism and Colonialism in science fiction and their imprint on the genre today by Arleen Schäfer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Bremen, course: Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: Postmodern SiFi series like "The 100" or "Snowpiercer" also employ methods of colonialism and imperialism reminiscent of classic novels like "The Time Machine". Class societies and discrimination seem to be firmly linked to the genre. This thesis compares "The 100" series to "The Time Machine", focusing on the aspects of the narrative that are shaped by colonialism and imperialism. Auch in postmodernen SiFi Serien wie "The 100" oder "Snowpiercer" werden Methoden des Kolonialismus und Imperialismus angewendet, die an Klassiker wie "The Time Machine" erinnern. Klassengesellschaften und Diskriminierung scheinen fest mit dem Genre verbunden zu sein. Diese Arbeit vergleicht die Serie "The 100" mit "The Time Machine" und fokussiert sich dabei auf die Aspekte der Narration, die von Kolonialismus und Imperialismus geprägt sind.

Author : Philip Darby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826420596

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Fiction of Imperialism by Philip Darby Pdf

The Fiction of Imperialism attempts to promote dialogue between international relations and postcolonialism. It addresses the value of fiction to an inderstanding of the imperial relationship between the West and Asia and Africa. A wide range of fiction and crisicism is examined as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics. The book begins by contrasting the treatment of cross-cultural relations in political studies and literary texts. It then examines the personal as a metaphor for the political in fiction depicting the imperial connection between Britain and India. This is paired with an analysis of African literary texts, which takes as its theme the relationship between culture and politics. The concluding chapters approach literature from the outside, considering its apparent silence on economics and realpolitik and assessing the utility of postcolonial reconceptualisations

Author : Andrew Griffiths
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137454386

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The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 by Andrew Griffiths Pdf

Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 traces this phenomenon through the work of editors, special correspondents and authors.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1796428086

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land." In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this book.

Author : Susan Meyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801482550

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Imperialism at Home by Susan Meyer Pdf

The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally, the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of race, and on literature and imperialism.

Author : Ericka Hoagland,Reema Sarwal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786457823

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Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World by Ericka Hoagland,Reema Sarwal Pdf

Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in science fiction. Topics covered include science fiction in Bengal, the genre's portrayal of Native Americans, Mexican cyberpunk fiction, and the undercurrents of colonialism and Empire in traditional science fiction. The intersections of science fiction theory and postcolonial theory are explored, as well as science fiction's contesting of imperialism and how the third world uses the genre to recreate itself. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Ching-chih Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811504624

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Japanese Imperialism in Contemporary English Fiction by Ching-chih Wang Pdf

This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine the influence of Japanese imperialism and its legacy at a time when culture was appropriated as route to governmentality and violence justified as root to peace. Using David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Tan Twang Eng’s The Garden of the Evening Mists and Kazuo Ishiguro’s work to examine Japanese militarists’ tactics of usurpation and how Japanese imperialism reached out to the grass-root public and turned into a fundamental belief in colonial invasion and imperial expansion, the book provides an in depth study of trauma, memory and war. From studying the rise of Japanese imperialism to Japan’s legitimization of colonial invasion, in addition to the devastating consequences of imperialism on both the colonizers and the colonized, the book provides a literary, discursive context to re-examine the forces of civilization which will appeal to all those interested in diasporic literature and postcolonial discourse, and the continued relevance of literature in understanding memory, legacy and war.

Author : Phillip Darby
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0300037481

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Three Faces of Imperialism by Phillip Darby Pdf

Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801467028

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Rule of Darkness by Patrick Brantlinger Pdf

A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880s to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history.

Author : Jennifer Yee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191034206

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The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel by Jennifer Yee Pdf

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The Colonial Comedy reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts. In what Edward Said called 'geographical notations' of race and imperialism the presence of the colonies off-stage is apparent as imported objects, colonial merchandise, and individuals whose colonial experience is transformative. Indeed, the realist novel registers the presence of the emerging global world-system through networks of importation, financial speculation, and immigration as well as direct colonial violence and power structures. The literature of the century responds to the last decades of French slavery, and direct colonialism (notably in Algeria), but also economic imperialism and the extension of French influence elsewhere. Far from imperialist triumphalism, in the realist novel exotic objects are portrayed as fake or mass-produced for the growing bourgeois market, while economic imperialism is associated with fraud and manipulation. The deliberate contrast of colonialism and exoticism within the metropolitan novel, and ironic distancing of colonial narratives, reveal the realist mode to be capable of questioning its own epistemological basis. The Colonial Comedy argues for the existence in the nineteenth century of a Critical Orientalism characterized by critique of its own discursive foundations. Using the tools of literary analysis within a materialist approach, The Colonial Comedy opens up the domestic Paris-Provinces axis to signifying chains pointing towards the colonial space.

Author : Wendy Roberta Katz,Wendy R. Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521131138

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Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire by Wendy Roberta Katz,Wendy R. Katz Pdf

imperial history and politics, as well as to readers of Haggard. --Book Jacket.

Author : Sara Jeannette Duncan
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1407630989

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The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan Pdf

Author : Ching-chih Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9811504644

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Japanese Imperialism in Contemporary English Fiction by Ching-chih Wang Pdf

This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine the influence of Japanese imperialism and its legacy at a time when culture was appropriated as route to governmentality and violence justified as root to peace. Using David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Tan Twang Eng's The Garden of the Evening Mists and Kazuo Ishiguro's work to examine Japanese militarists' tactics of usurpation and how Japanese imperialism reached out to the grass-root public and turned into a fundamental belief in colonial invasion and imperial expansion, the book provides an in depth study of trauma, memory and war. From studying the rise of Japanese imperialism to Japan's legitimization of colonial invasion, in addition to the devastating consequences of imperialism on both the colonizers and the colonized, the book provides a literary, discursive context to re-examine the forces of civilization which will appeal to all those interested in diasporic literature and postcolonial discourse, and the continued relevance of literature in understanding memory, legacy and war.