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MacPhee, Graham and Prem Poddar, eds. 2007. Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. $60.00 hc. 211 pp.
Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective is a valuable addition to what, since the early 1990s, has been "a sustained renewal of interest in British national identity" across diverse disciplines and inter-disciplines, including history, literature, politics, and cultural studies (1). Revisionary in scope, and robustly critical in its emphases, an important strand in this academic renewal--to which the essays in this collection belong--is a focus on this identity's contradictory, ambivalent, and mutually contaminating relationship with ideologies of empire building, such that presumed opposites like national and supranational, local and global, and "English" and "British" can be seen as interpenetrating each other.
This collection is comprised of nine essays, with the first five appearing under the rubric of "Nation and Empire" and the next four under "Postcolonial Legacies." The former group addresses the experience (and consequences) of an...
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