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Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period - Colonialism and the Politics of Performance (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period - Colonialism and the Politics of Performance (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the
nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways
that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by
authors that include Charlotte BrontA", Mary Seacole, Charles
Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting
Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies -
narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English
subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising
these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and
fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was
an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised,
and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways
to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of
thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act
of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing
historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of
Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial
authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.
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