The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature
By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial gl
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The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature
10.1057/9781137314611 - The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature, Lucienne Loh
10.1057/9781137314611 - The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature, Lucienne Loh
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The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature Lecturer in English Literature, University of Liverpool, UK
10.1057/9781137314611 - The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature, Lucienne Loh
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Lucienne Loh
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Contents vi
Introduction: Foreign Fields that are Forever England Part I: 1 2 3
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Legacies of Empire in the English Countryside
The Politics of Postimperial Melancholia and Rural Heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn
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Rural Routes of Empire, Co
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