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Chargement... The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 13: 1948-2000: The Internationalization of English Literature (Vol 13)par Bruce King
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In the future, what will 'English Literary History' mean? A literary history of England, or one with much looser boundaries, defined only by a communality of language, not by location or history? In this, the last volume in the Oxford English Literary History, Bruce King discusses theliterature written by those who have chosen to make England their home since 1948. With decolonization following World War II, and the growth of large immigrant communities in England, came a wave of colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers whose entry onto the British cultural landscape forcesus to consider what it is to be British, English, or national now that England is multiracial and part of a global economy.King addresses these new trends in English literature and the questions they raise in the first wide-ranging and comprehensive account of immigrant literature set in a social context. Ranging through Black and Asian British prose, poetry, and drama, and writers including V. S. Naipaul, SalmanRushdie, Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith, King reveals the development of the literature from writing about immigration to becoming English. Now that the literature of England includes Sri Lankans, Egyptians, and British Nigerians, does this mean that we can no longer talk of the English nation asa cultural unit? King concludes persuasively that it does not. We have not seem the demise of national cultures; rather, a new, accomplished, and socially significant body of writing in England is influenced by the interaction between foreign cultures and British traditions. This bold andchallenging account of British culture will shape debate for future generations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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King's perspective is also a bit odd for a lit critic. He's very keen on liberalism as a function of the market, rather than seeing that the market is an off-shoot of liberalism. I guess this kind of inverse Marxism (Marx: market drives bad cultural effects; neo-liberals: market drives good cultural effects) is kind of popular outside the academy, but any understanding of history should make him think twice. Anyway, the concluding argument is: 'liberal' capitalism brings about happy multiculturalism in England, and that process is done. Isn't that nice. This was published in 2004; I do hope Mr King's had second thoughts about the argument in this book. ( )