Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections - Couverture souple

Fowler, Corinne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845234820 ISBN 13 : 9781845234829

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England’s links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.

Combining essays, poems and stories, Green Unpleasant Land details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain’s cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. This is a shared history: Britons’ ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. Green Unpleasant Land argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the countryside and Englishness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Corinne Fowler is a research expert at the University of Leicester, and is Director of Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted. Professor Fowler is an expert in the legacies of colonialism and postcolonialism to literature, heritage, and representations of British history. She co-founded and led the Centre for New Writing for 6 years, where she bought together writers and researchers to commission over 100 creative works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845234820
• ISBN 13: 9781845234829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
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