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Zusatztext This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of imperial studies, British culture, and Sudanese colonial history. Informationen zum Autor Lia Paradis is Chair of the History department at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA. Vorwort An exploration of the cultural impact of British people living in Sudan on the popular image of the British Empire. Zusammenfassung General Gordon’s death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children’s stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity. Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire – why were these colonial administrators characterized as ‘adventurers’? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudan’s experience tells us a lot about the British Empire – how it was made, consumed and remembered. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPrologue The Story BeginsSection I Metropolitan Britain Writes the SudanChapter 1 A Child’s Journey to the SudanChapter 2 General Gordon’s LegacyChapter 3 The Colonial Administration CourseChapter 4 The Adventurer and the AdministratorSection II Authoring the “Sudani” IdentityChapter 5 Establishing a British-Sudan Correspondence CircuitChapter 6 Creating a British-Sudan Epistolary CommunityChapter 7 The 1924 Mutiny—Narrative and AlienationSection III Remembering the SudanChapter 8 Writing the ReturnChapter 9 Change of MastersChapter 10 Epilogue—Remembering the SudanBibliographyIndex
