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Aiming to show that the mongrelization of Britain and British literature began well before the second half of the 20th century, this selection incorporates 18th-century black writers with direct experience of the slave trade, such as Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano. It also looks at white writers whose accident of birth took place in a British colony, resulting in a similar sense of ambivalence, whether in the jingoism of a Rudyard Kipling or the social commitment of a George Orwell. And it reflects the emergence of a group of writers who demonstrate the same mixture of attachment and detachment which marks them as products of the British Empire, including V.S. Naipaul and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
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Extravagant Strangers, Carly Phillips
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Extravagant Strangers
- Subtitle
- An Anthology of English Literature
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Carly Phillips
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 356
- ISBN10
- 0571190863
- ISBN13
- 9780571190867
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Political Science & Politics, English Literature, Political Theories, British Empire
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- Aiming to show that the mongrelization of Britain and British literature began well before the second half of the 20th century, this selection incorporates 18th-century black writers with direct experience of the slave trade, such as Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano. It also looks at white writers whose accident of birth took place in a British colony, resulting in a similar sense of ambivalence, whether in the jingoism of a Rudyard Kipling or the social commitment of a George Orwell. And it reflects the emergence of a group of writers who demonstrate the same mixture of attachment and detachment which marks them as products of the British Empire, including V.S. Naipaul and Linton Kwesi Johnson.