The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)

The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
Author: Deirdre Osborne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1107139244

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"Post-World War II mass migration to Great Britain altered its demographic composition more markedly than in any other period in its history, resulting in a modern multicultural nation state shaped by the ethnic diversity of its citizenry. Populations from African, Caribbean, and South Asian locations arriving in Britain post-war brought diasporic sensibilities and literary heritages that have profoundly transformed British national culture, leading to a more complex and inclusive sense of its past. The Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) examines the creative impact of this rich infusion upon English literature against the backdrop of the seismic social and economic changes triggered by colonialism and migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary globalization"--

Ending 'East of Suez'

Ending 'East of Suez'
Author: P. L. Pham
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191610437

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In 1964 Britain's defence presence in Malaysia and Singapore was the largest and most expensive component of the country's world-wide role. Yet within three and a half years the Wilson Government had announced that Britain would be withdrawing from its major Southeast Asian bases and abandoning any special military role 'East of Suez'. Drawing upon previously classified government records P.L. Pham examines and explains how the Wilson Government came to this conclusion, one of the most significant decisions in the decline of British global power after the Second World War. Substantially revising earlier accounts, Pham exposes the inner workings of government, the close but strained relations between the United Kingdom and the United States in the midst of Cold War tensions, and how politicians and policy makers managed the decline of British power, providing an in-depth and comprehensive study of British policy processes of the era.

Britain and South-East Asia

Britain and South-East Asia
Author: D. K. Bassett
Publisher: Centre for South-East Asian Studies University of Hull
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1986
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1999
Genre: Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN:

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One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.

Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia

Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia
Author: Karl Hack
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780700713035

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This book looks at British defence and decolonisation in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaya and Singapore, from Singapore's fall in 1942 to 'East of Suez' withdrawal after 1968. It shows how local social and ethnic forces interacted with British attempts to reduce garrisons, and to fashion a 'Dominion of Southeast Asia'.

Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History Since 1600

Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History Since 1600
Author: Andrew N. Porter
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.

Resisting Colonialist Discourse

Resisting Colonialist Discourse
Author: Zawiah Yahya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1994
Genre: Colonies in literature
ISBN:

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Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization

Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization
Author: Sandeep Banerjee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429686390

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The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. Focusing on the literary field of South Asia between, largely, the 1860s and 1920s, it underlines the centrality of literary imagination and representation in the cultural politics of decolonization. This book spatializes our understanding of decolonization while decoupling and complicating the easy equation between decolonization and anti-colonial nationalism. The author utilises a global comparative framework and reads across the English-vernacular divide to understand space as a site of contested representation and ideological contestation. He interrogates the spatial desire of anti-colonial and colonial texts across a range of genres, namely, historical romances, novels, travelogues, memoirs, poems, and patriotic lyrics. The book is the first full-length literary geographical study of South Asian literary texts and will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of Postcolonial and World Literature, Asian Literature, Victorian Literature, Modern South Asian Historiography, Literature and Utopia, Literature and Decolonization, Literature and Nationalism, Cultural Geography, and South Asian Studies.