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Zusatztext Inspiring ... meticulously researched and gracefully written ... Throughout the book Boehmer's commitment to historical occasion and accuracy acts as a necessary counterweight to some of the abstract excesses of postcolonial theory, enabling her to be conceptually adventurous but historically responsible. Informationen zum Autor Elleke Boehmer is Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, and author of Colonial Literature (1995), and three novels: Screens Against the Sky (1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993), and Bloodlines (2000). Klappentext This book explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the British empire. Boehmer significantly questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation, syncretism and mimicry, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship. Zusammenfassung Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the empire in the years 1890-1920. By developing the key motifs of lateral interaction and colonial interdiscursivity, Boehmer builds a picture of the imperial world as an intricate network of surprising contacts and margin-to-margin interrelationships, and of modernism as a far more constellated cultural phenomenon than previously understood. Individual case studies consider Irish support for the Boers in 1899-1902, the path-breaking radical partnership of the Englishwoman Sister Nivedita and the Bengali extremist Aurobindo Ghose, Sol Plaatje's conflicted South African nationalism, and the cross-border, cosmopolitan involvements of W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. Underlining Frantz Fanon's perception that 'a colonized people is not alone', Boehmer significantly questions prevailing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining nation, syncretism and mimicry, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1: Anti-imperial interaction across the colonial borderline: Introduction, The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman. 2: India the starting point: cross-national self-translation in 1900s Calcutta. 3: 'But Transmitters'?: The interdiscursive alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita. 4: 'Able to sing their songs': Solomon Plaatje's many-tongued nationalism. 5: 'Immeasurable strangeness' between empire and modernism: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, and Leonard Woolf. Bibliography Index ...
