The uses of (an)other history: a digression from Linda Colley's Britishness and otherness: an argument
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The question that animates this paper is deceptively simple: what is brought into ‘play’ in the conjunction of the signifiers ‘Britishness’ and ‘Otherness’? Is the coupling of these two terms merely a taxonomic convenience, a way of marking out apparently fixed, mostly immutable categories such as ‘nation’, ‘cultural practice’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘Empire’? Or, conversely, is the opposition of ‘Britain-as-subject’ and its panoply of archipelagic and colonial ‘objects’ essentially a...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2009-09-04T02:03:35Z |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10440/799 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/799 |
Source: | Humanities Research |
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