Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: by Elleke Boehmer

By Elleke Boehmer

This e-book explores the political co-operations and textual connections which associated anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist teams and contributors within the British empire. Boehmer considerably questions triumphing postcolonial paradigms of the self-defining country, syncretism and mimicry, and dismantles still-dominant binary definitions of the colonial relationship.

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