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Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Julie F. Codell, ed. Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2003. Pp. 328. $57.50. ISBN 0-8386-3973-9.

The twelve essays in this volume address the role of the press in forming and defining identities in Britain and several of its colonial dependencies during the Victorian era. Following her introduction Julie Codell divides the essays into two parts, "Sites of Authority: Imperial Domination and Press Intervention" and "Sites of Fracture: Resistance and Autonomy in Imperial Representation." Loosely applying the concept of co-histories first painted in broad strokes by Edward Said (who borrowed the term from Franz Fanon), the book sets out...

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