British Culture After Empire - Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945

This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.

About the author

Josh Doble is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Liam J. Liburd is Assistant Professor in Black British History at the University of Durham

Emma Parker is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Keele University

Summary

This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Josh Liburd Doble
• Assisted by: Josh Doble (Editor), Liam Liburd (Editor), Liam J. Liburd (Editor), Emma Parker (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781526159748
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5974-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature