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By Matthew Whittle

This booklet examines literary texts through British colonial servant and settler writers, together with Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the effect of decolonization within the newly autonomous colonies and at domestic in Britain. The finish of the British Empire used to be the most major and transformative occasions in twentieth-century heritage, marking the start of a brand new global order and having an indelible influence on British tradition and society. Literary responses to this second via these from inside of Britain supply an enlightening (and usually missed) exploration of the impression of decolonization on obtained notions of “race” and sophistication, whereas additionally prefiguring conceptions of multiculturalism. As Matthew Whittle argues during this sweeping learn, those works not just view decolonization inside of its international context (alongside the aftermath of the second one global warfare, the increase of the USA, and mass immigration) yet usually suggest an answer to imperial decline via cultural renewal.

 

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