British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel
暫譯: 英國去殖民化與女性中產階級小說

Wetherilt, Anne

British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2025-09-02
  • 售價: $5,290
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 294
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031923243
  • ISBN-13: 9783031923241

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British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed discussion of middlebrow fiction by women writers who personally witnessed the dismantling of the British Empire, the intensification of the Cold War, and the domestic tensions following the arrival of thousands of migrants from Britain's former colonies. Studying selected novels by Cecilie Leslie, Elspeth Huxley, Mary McMinnies, Han Suyin and Kamala Markandaya, this study demonstrates that women's middlebrow writing reveals a much deeper engagement with the politics and economics of decolonisation than is usually ascribed to the genre. As Anne Wetherilt argues, by transcending the politics of domesticity, the female middlebrow registers a critique of both Britain's colonial history and mainstream conceptions of decolonisation as a well-managed transition from empire to commonwealth. As such, the middlebrow novel of the immediate post-war decades takes us back to a place where the end of empire was imagined rather than denied, and the ambiguities of British colonial politics exposed, rather than repressed.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《英國去殖民化與女性中產小說》提供了對女性作家所創作的中產小說的首次詳細討論，這些作家親身目睹了英國帝國的解體、冷戰的加劇，以及隨著數千名來自英國前殖民地的移民抵達而引發的國內緊張局勢。通過研究Cecilie Leslie、Elspeth Huxley、Mary McMinnies、Han Suyin和Kamala Markandaya的選定小說，本研究顯示女性的中產寫作對去殖民化的政治和經濟有著比通常所歸因於該類型的更深刻的參與。正如Anne Wetherilt所主張的，女性中產小說超越了家庭政治，對英國的殖民歷史以及主流對去殖民化的概念（視為從帝國到聯邦的良好過渡）提出了批評。因此，戰後初期幾十年的中產小說將我們帶回到一個想像而非否認帝國結束的地方，並揭示了英國殖民政治的模糊性，而不是壓抑它。

作者簡介

Anne Wetherilt is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University, UK. In 2024, she completed a Ph.D. in English at the Open University, funded by the Open Oxford Cambridge (OOC) Doctoral Training Partnership. She also holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and worked for many years in public policy. Her broader interests span postcolonial and global literatures, Cold War fiction and middlebrow culture more generally. Her current research focuses on the relationship between development economics and the postcolonial novel.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

安妮·韋瑟里特（Anne Wetherilt）是英國開放大學（The Open University）英語與創意寫作系的訪問研究員。她於2024年在開放大學完成了英語博士學位，該學位由開放牛津劍橋（Open Oxford Cambridge, OOC）博士培訓夥伴計劃資助。她還擁有賓夕法尼亞大學的經濟學博士學位，並在公共政策領域工作多年。她的研究興趣涵蓋後殖民與全球文學、冷戰小說以及中產文化等更廣泛的主題。她目前的研究重點是發展經濟學與後殖民小說之間的關係。

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