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Colonial strangers : women writing the end of the British empire

Author: Phyllis Lassner
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
Summary:
Lassner's analysis reveals how writers such as Muriel Spark, Olivia Manning, Rumer Godden, Phyllis Bottome, Elspeth Huxley and Zadie Smith insist that World War II is critical to understanding how and why the British Empire had to end.
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Named Person: Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley; Phyllis Bottome; Rumer Godden; Olivia Manning; Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley; Phyllis Bottome; Rumer Godden; Olivia Manning
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Phyllis Lassner
ISBN: 081353416X 9780813534169 0813534178 9780813534176
OCLC Number: 53098984
Description: vii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Strangers at the Gates: the Middle East --
Part I. Olivia Manning: The Gates Besieged --
World War II --
Part II. Muriel Spark and Ethel Mannin: The Gates Breached and the Struggle for Postcolonial Identity --
Strangers in a Walled Garden: Rumer Godden's Anglo-India --
Red Strangers: Elspeth Huxley's Africa --
Island Strangers: Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Phyllis Bottome.
Responsibility: Phyllis Lassner.
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Lassner's analysis reveals how writers such as Muriel Spark, Olivia Manning, Rumer Godden, Phyllis Bottome, Elspeth Huxley and Zadie Smith insist that World War II is critical to understanding how and why the British Empire had to end.

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