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Article: England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction. By ANN BLAKE, LEELA GHANDI, and SUE THOMAS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. x + 207 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-333-73744-x.
Stuart Hall, in a recent radio interview, lamented the irony of cultural shifts. At a time when 'British' has become an acceptable term to many black inhabitants of England, who would resist being described as English, Britain is redefining its 'united kingdom', establishing separate parliaments in its constituent parts, and rejecting the collective identity implied by 'British'. This kind of mutation, showing self-representation as constantly in process rather than ...