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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 Reissue Edition
Author(s): Elleke Boehmer (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S.A.
- Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2009
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Print length: 507 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199555591
- ISBN-13: 9780199555598
Book Description
This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and startling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. This wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Published On: 2023-04-18
Editorial Reviews
Review
it is hard to fault Boehmer's choice of texts and the perspicacity of her comments ― Essays in Criticism
About the Author
Elleke Boehmer is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.
