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Author_Simon Gikandi
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Product details
- ISBN 9780231105996
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century. He provides detailed readings of the works of Trollope, Carlyle, and others; through the narratives of imperial women travelers such as Mary Kingsley and Mary Seacole; and through Africanist texts by Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and postcolonialists such as Salman Rushdie and Joan Riley.
Simon E. Gikandi is professor of English language and literature at the University of Michigan.
