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Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (Paperback)
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Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (Paperback)
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Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern explores the
problematic formation of national culture within modern English
society. In this ambitious work of post-colonial and cultural
theory, C. J. Wan-ling Wee investigates the complex interaction
between a modern, industrialized, metropolitan, and progressively
rational English national culture and a nationalistic imperial
discourse interested in territorial expansion and the valorization
of an idealized agrarian past. Starting with the Victorian era, the
work documents the complex relationship of concepts such as 'home'
and 'frontier' and 'EnglishO and 'colonial' through an analysis of
key literary-cultural figures in their historical contexts: Rudyard
Kipling, Charles Kingsley, T.S. Eliot, and V.S. Naipaul. Wee brings
the discussion of modernity into the present with a consideration
of post-imperial Singapore a neo-traditionalist modern society that
reworks many of the colonial tropes and contradictions to
investigate the ambiguities and contradictions revealed in the
West's engagement with modernity."
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