Fictions of Empire and the (Un-)Making of Imperialist Mentalities

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Criticism Revisited
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage171en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage198en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume7en_US
dc.contributor.authorNünning, Vera
dc.contributor.authorNünning, Ansgar
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-20T12:32:18Z
dc.date.available2023-03-20T12:32:18Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article explores some of the issues that are of crucial importance for any attempt to come to grips with the logic of the fictions which provided the ideological backbone of British imperialism. After briefly delineating the continuity of the imperial past in the present, section 2 provides a preliminary exploration of the meanings of the term “fictions of empire,” i.e. of the ambiguous title of this essay. Section 3 then provides an attempt to conceptualize the relationship between fiction and reality, and between culture and imperialism, emphasizing the creative or performative role that works of fiction can play in the construction and deconstruction of the ideological fictions of imperialism. Section 4 presents a narratologically informed revison of colonial discourse analysis and post-colonial criticism, which is the the approach that informs this article. Section 5 discusses six of the main functions that both literary and conceptual fictions can fulfill with regard to the making, and unmaking, of imperialist mentalities, while the last section provides a brief conclusion.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2888
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn19498519en_US
dc.relation.journalForum for World Literature Studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0en_US
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dc.subject.ddcddc:900en_US
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldculturalstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldpostcolonialen_US
dc.titleFictions of Empire and the (Un-)Making of Imperialist Mentalitiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeColonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Criticism Revisiteden_US
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