West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to decolonization /
نام نخستين پديدآور
Anne Spry Rush
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
New York :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Oxford University Press,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2011
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
vi, 274 p. ;
ابعاد
24 cm
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-262) and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
In the first half of the twentieth century Britishness was an integral part of the culture that pervaded life in the colonial Caribbean. Caribbean peoples were encouraged to identify with social structures and cultural values touted as intrinsically British. Many middle-class West Indians of colour duly adopted Britishness as part of their own identity. Yet, as Anne Spry Rush explains in Bonds of Empire, even as they refashioned themselves, West Indians recast Britishness in their own image, basing it on hierarchical ideas of respectability that were traditionally British, but also on more modern expectations of racial and geographical inclusiveness. For West Indians, Britain became the focus of an imperial British identity, an identity which stood separate from, and yet intimately related to, their strong feelings for their tropical homelands
متن يادداشت
Moving from the heights of empire in 1 900 to the independence era of the 1960s, Rush argues that middle-class West Indians used their understanding of Britishness first to establish a place for themselves in the British imperial world, and then to negotiate the challenges of decolonization. Through a focus on education, voluntary organization, the challenges of war, radiobroadcasting, and British royalty, she explores how this process worked in the daily lives of West Indians in both the Caribbean and the British Isles. Bonds of Empire thus traces West Indians' participation in a complex process of cultural transition as they manipulated Britishness and their relationship to it not only as Caribbean peoples, but also as Britons. Book jacket
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Ethnology-- West Indies, British
موضوع مستند نشده
National characteristics, British
موضوع مستند نشده
National characteristics, West Indian
موضوع مستند نشده
West Indians-- Social life and customs-- 20th century
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
West Indies, British, Civilization, 20th century
بدون عنوان
0
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
F1609
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5
نشانه اثر
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R87
2011
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