Post-Anti-Colonial Histories
Representing the Other in Imperial Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10064922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elazar Barkan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-203 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/386050 |
| OpenAlex | W2120247899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 22 |
New Aliens. By not being Others we define ourselves. We have always done so. In bad times the barbarians were at our gates; on more fortunate occasions we were at theirs. As we changed, so did our alter ego. A hundred-plus years ago in England, “we” were the upper classes, perhaps the middling lot aspiring upward. Primarily men. The Others populated the Empire, the East End of London, and even many social and geographic quarters closer to home. And if we were not men, we mostly pretended we wished we were. We wrote our history, as well as theirs. In time, growing familiarity transformed many strange aliens into us, an acquaintancy which led to multiculturalism, gender assertiveness, and subjectivism. In the process we found new aliens—the DWEM (dead white European males). Some of us have maintained our moral righteousness throughout, whereas others have been skeptical all along. Having gone through a generation of a strong antipatriarchal/anticolonial writing, writers of different persuasions have come to reevaluate and pose challenges to the new edifice. Suspended between conflicting incredulous postmodernist sensibilities and a pragmatic sense that communication is maintained despite its announced demise, it seems an opportune moment to examine the new attitudes to writing (imperial) history in light of such questions as the role of agency within and against a dominant discourse, the place of morality in the writing of history, and the process of alienation mediated among competing victimizations
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Inside, outside, Other
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Creating Indigenous Discourse
The poetics of imperialism
The Rhetoric of English India
Imperial Eyes
Primitive art in civilized places
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Making Imperial Mentalities
Western Women and Imperialism
European Women and the Second British Empire
Selected Subaltern studies
Reluctant Debutante. Response of Bengali Women to Modernization, 1849-1905
Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo 1900-1909
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
Images from Bamum
The Predicament of Culture
Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2022 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |