Extravagant Strangers

An Anthology of English Literature

Autor*innen

• Carly Phillips

Parameter

• 356 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Britisches Weltreich
• Englische Literatur
• Politische Theorien
• Sachliteratur
• Sozialwissenschaften

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Aiming to show that the mongrelization of Britain and British literature began well before the second half of the 20th century, this selection incorporates 18th-century black writers with direct experience of the slave trade, such as Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano. It also looks at white writers whose accident of birth took place in a British colony, resulting in a similar sense of ambivalence, whether in the jingoism of a Rudyard Kipling or the social commitment of a George Orwell. And it reflects the emergence of a group of writers who demonstrate the same mixture of attachment and detachment which marks them as products of the British Empire, including V.S. Naipaul and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Einband: Hardcover