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Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness
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July 1, 2007
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Affect and the City PETER KALLINEY, Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006), pp. 288, doth, $59.50, paper, $22.50.
Peter Kalliney's excellent Cities of Affluence and Anger joins a growing list of recent cultural and literary studies that discuss national identity in Britain and England through the lens of postcolonial studies. Edward Said's call to examine the contrapuntal production of culture, not just in the colonies and post-colonies but also in the "metropole" has yielded a crop of rigorously theorized and historicized literary studies of Englishness. The most influential of these books are Simon Gikandi's Maps ...
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