The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature Tsang Philip
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature Tsang Philip Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland,…
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The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature Tsang Philip
Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community.The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. Naipaul--to trace an aesthetics of frustrated attachment that emerged in the wake of imperial decline. In The Obsolete Empire, Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers--Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S.
Caught between an expansive Britishness and an exclusive Englishness, these writers explored what it meant to belong to an empire that did not belong to them.Thanks to their voracious reading of English fiction and poetry in their formative years, all of these writers experienced a richly textured world with which they deeply identified but from which they felt excluded.