Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.
Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Barbara Buchenau, Ph.D. (2002), University of Göttingen, is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her publications include a book on American settler fiction; a monograph on Typecasting in Colonial North America is under preparation.
Virginia Richter, Ph.D. (1997), University of Munich, is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her numerous publications include Literature after Darwin. Human Beasts in Western Fiction, 1859-1939 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Marijke Denger is currently completing her PhD on community in contemporary postcolonial novels at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Contributors are: Elsie Cloete, Mayannah N. Dahlheim, Rainer Emig, Elena Furlanetto, Jana Gohrisch, Alfred Hiatt, Kerstin Knopf, Donna Landry, Karsten Levihn-Kutzler, Michael Meyer, Eva-Maria Müller, Timo Müller, Eva M. Pérez, Judith Raiskin, Cecile Sandten, Silke Stroh, and Anne-Julia Zwierlein.
Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Vendeur : books4less (Versandantiquariat Petra Gros GmbH & Co. KG), Welling, Allemagne
gebundene Ausgabe. Etat : Gut. 465 Seiten; Das Buch befindet sich in einem sehr gut erhaltenen Zustand. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 920. N° de réf. du vendeur 1825835
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None Issued. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the top edge of the pages is lightly age toned. Binding is sturdy. Covers show a little light wear at the corners. No dust jacket, as issued. N° de réf. du vendeur 050550
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Irlande
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Hardcover, xxxvi + 465 pages, NOT ex-library. Near fine, likely unread, clean and bright throughout, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear only. Issued without a dust jacket. Shipping weight over 1kg. -- Beyond postcolonial critique: how literature and media reframe empire's afterlives for a globalized present, providing essential tools for analyzing the persistence of imperial power in contemporary culture. -- This volume explores how the cultural and political legacies of defunct empires continue to shape anglophone literature, historiography, and media through what the editors term post-empire imaginaries. Beginning with conceptual frameworks that examine empire as interpretive strategy, pedagogical tool, and cartographic representation, the collection traces contested historiographies from Hiatt's spatial analyses and Dahlheim's Mishra-Ferguson debates to Knopf's Arctic explorations and Müller's Australian educational narratives. The comparative analysis juxtaposes British formations with Ottoman and Roman predecessors through Landry's Evliya Çelebi as postimperial time-traveler, Furlanetto's Ottoman utopias in Elif Shafak, and Stroh's Londinium as Roman-British palimpsest, revealing how different empires provide symbolic repertoires for cultural production. The investigation extends to historical media as archives of imperial affect: Zwierlein's eighteenth-century panoramas as proto-postcolonial counter-narratives, Raiskin's travel advertisements merging neo-colonial militarism with tourist fantasy, and Timo Müller's Bond films as barometers of post-imperial anxiety. Contemporary literary case studies from Phillips, Beukes, Sinha, Roy, and Levy demonstrate how twenty-first-century fiction employs speculative realism and historical fantasy to reimagine post-empire communities through themes of toxic terror, precarious belonging, and contested agency. The theoretical framework draws on Hutcheon's complicitous critique, Stoler's generative archives, Saldívar's postrace aesthetics, and Hardt-Negri's decentralized Empire to analyze how imperial repertoires simultaneously critique and perpetuate power structures. -- This collection's distinctiveness lies in its refusal to treat empire as closed history, instead analyzing it as a flexible repertoire and media ecology that mutates across time. Its temporal breadth spans 18th-century visual culture to contemporary speculative fiction, while its cross-empire comparative methodology examines Ottoman, Roman, and British formations symmetrically rather than through anglophone exceptionalism. The volume is particularly valuable for its exploration of how imperial tolerance mechanisms inform current transnational organizations from the EU to ASEAN, its development of theoretical vocabulary for understanding contemporary domination without formal imperialism, and its prescient connections to platform imperialism and algorithmic governance. Researchers gain a durable methodological framework for analyzing imperial continuities across media forms, practitioners access insights into how imperial legacies shape contemporary identity politics and cultural production, while advanced students receive sophisticated tools for examining the paradoxical persistence of imperial imaginaries in ostensibly postcolonial contexts. N° de réf. du vendeur 012135
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : New. XXXVI, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. N° de réf. du vendeur 12jbew301
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Brook Bookstore On Demand, Napoli, NA, Italie
Etat : new. Questo è un articolo print on demand. N° de réf. du vendeur 1689e7d4ef68385241a6ffe1dcb2332c
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles
Vendeur : PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Royaume-Uni
HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur L2-9789004300705
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles
Vendeur : PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, Etats-Unis
HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur L2-9789004300705
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. illustrated edition. 465 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. N° de réf. du vendeur __9004300708
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : moluna, Greven, Allemagne
Hardcover. Etat : New. N° de réf. du vendeur 909461302
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles