Culture, empire, and the question of being modern
著者
書誌事項
Culture, empire, and the question of being modern
Lexington Books, c2003
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780739103883
内容説明
Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern explores the problematic formation of national culture within modern English society. In this ambitious work of post-colonial and cultural theory, C. J. Wan-ling Wee investigates the complex interaction between a modern, industrialized, metropolitan, and progressively rational English national culture and a nationalistic imperial discourse interested in territorial expansion and the valorization of an idealized agrarian past.
目次
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Culture, Empire, Modernity Chapter 3 Primitive Vigor, Empire, and a "Pure" National Culture Chapter 4 The "Recovery" of the English Frontier in England Chapter 5 From National Imperialism to Imperial Nationalism Chapter 6 The "Native" Arrives Chapter 7 Epilogue: An "East Asian Modernity" and the Ironies of Postcolonial Culture
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: pbk ISBN 9780739103890
内容説明
Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern explores the problematic formation of national culture within modern English society. In this ambitious work of post-colonial and cultural theory, C. J. Wan-ling Wee investigates the complex interaction between a modern, industrialized, metropolitan, and progressively rational English national culture and a nationalistic imperial discourse interested in territorial expansion and the valorization of an idealized agrarian past. Starting with the Victorian era, the work documents the complex relationship of concepts such as 'home' and 'frontier' and 'EnglishO and 'colonial' through an analysis of key literary-cultural figures in their historical contexts: Rudyard Kipling, Charles Kingsley, T.S. Eliot, and V.S. Naipaul. Wee brings the discussion of modernity into the present with a consideration of post-imperial Singapore-a neo-traditionalist modern society that reworks many of the colonial tropes and contradictions-to investigate the ambiguities and contradictions revealed in the West's engagement with modernity.
目次
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Culture, Empire, Modernity Chapter 3 Primitive Vigor, Empire, and a "Pure" National Culture Chapter 4 The "Recovery" of the English Frontier in England Chapter 5 From National Imperialism to Imperial Nationalism Chapter 6 The "Native" Arrives Chapter 7 Epilogue: An "East Asian Modernity" and the Ironies of Postcolonial Culture
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