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Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern

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Dissecting modernity's influence on national identity.

If you're intrigued by how the past shapes the present, particularly regarding culture and identity, you might find "Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern" captivating. C.J. Wan-Ling Wee dives deep into the English societal evolution, intertwining colonialism, literature, and post-colonial theory. It's a thoughtful read that will give you a new perspective on the complexities modernity introduces to national culture, with a unique blend of historical and contemporary analysis—a real thought-provoker for those fascinated by cultural dynamics.

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Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern

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ISBN: 9780739103890

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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.


Author: C.J. Wan-Ling Wee
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: 2003
 

Dissecting modernity's influence on national identity.

If you're intrigued by how the past shapes the present, particularly regarding culture and identity, you might find "Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern" captivating. C.J. Wan-Ling Wee dives deep into the English societal evolution, intertwining colonialism, literature, and post-colonial theory. It's a thoughtful read that will give you a new perspective on the complexities modernity introduces to national culture, with a unique blend of historical and contemporary analysis—a real thought-provoker for those fascinated by cultural dynamics.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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