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Imperial Culture and the Sudan
Authorship, Identity and the British Empire
Imperial Culture and the Sudan
Authorship, Identity and the British Empire
Description
General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity.Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire – why were these colonial administrators characterized as 'adventurers'? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudan's experience tells us a lot about the British Empire – how it was made, consumed and remembered.
Table of Contents
Prologue The Story Begins
Section I Metropolitan Britain Writes the Sudan
Chapter 1 A Child's Journey to the Sudan
Chapter 2 General Gordon's Legacy
Chapter 3 The Colonial Administration Course
Chapter 4 The Adventurer and the Administrator
Section II Authoring the “Sudani” Identity
Chapter 5 Establishing a British-Sudan Correspondence Circuit
Chapter 6 Creating a British-Sudan Epistolary Community
Chapter 7 The 1924 Mutiny-Narrative and Alienation
Section III Remembering the Sudan
Chapter 8 Writing the Return
Chapter 9 Change of Masters
Chapter 10 Epilogue-Remembering the Sudan
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 14 May 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781788319003 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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