C. J. W. -L. Wee

Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern explores the problematic formation of national culture within modern English society. In this ambitious work of post-colonial and cultural theory, C. J. Wan-ling Wee investigates the complex interaction between a modern, industrialized, metropolitan, and progressively rational English national culture and a nationalistic imperial discourse interested in territorial expansion and the valorization of an idealized agrarian past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780739103890
• ISBN-10: 073910389X
• Artikelnr.: 21377879

Autorenporträt

C. J. W.-L. Wee teaches literature and cultural theory at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Culture, Empire, Modernity
Chapter 3 Primitive Vigor, Empire, and a "Pure" National Culture
Chapter 4 The "Recovery" of the English Frontier in England
Chapter 5 From National Imperialism to Imperial Nationalism
Chapter 6 The "Native" Arrives
Chapter 7 Epilogue: An "East Asian Modernity" and the Ironies of
Postcolonial Culture