Essays about: "Englishness"
Found 4 essays containing the word Englishness.
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1. "It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the embedded criticism of colonialism in the text. READ MORE
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2. An Englishman in Paris : A Study of Katherine Mansfield's Construction of Englishness in Je Ne Parle Pas Français
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : The author discusses the construction of Englishness in Katherine Mansfield’s short story Je Ne Parle Pas Français using previous accounts for Englishness, Otherness and the context of modernism –primarily featuring imperialism. The author concludes that there is an English identity portrayed in Je Ne Parle Pas Français, but that it is to a greater extent associated with imperialism than other identifiable cultural traits. READ MORE
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3. National Identity in Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of the essay is to argue that Patrick Hamilton´s The Slaves of Solitude could be seen as conscious criticism of the prevalent notions of British national identity in the 1940s. Based on the premise that national identity is a constructed phenomenon subject to negotiation, the conceptual uses of national identity in cultural senses are analysed. READ MORE
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4. Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different generations and various ethnic backgrounds in London – one on the most “multicultural” cities in the world – the novel effectively questions the utopian idea of a “Happy Multicultural Land”, that is to say a trouble-free harmonious society. READ MORE
