By Graham MacPhee
This publication deals a reassessment of present methods to postwar writing in Britain in gentle of ongoing debates concerning the legacy of imperialism and decolonization, the cultural implications of globalization, and the strengthening of different conceptions of nationwide identification around the united kingdom. Graham MacPhee discusses quite a lot of writers from W.H. Auden to Linto Kwsi Johnson and from Sam Selvon to Ian McEwan. He presents case reviews of postwar texts, explores serious phrases like 'migrancy' and 'hybridity', and eventually indicates how postwar writers infused the experimentalism of prewar modernism with different cultural traditions so as to signify either the soreness and the pleasures of multiculturalism.
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Anand was fascinated by the social institutionalisation of class differences in Britain – and indeed with racial segregation in the US – which provided a complex set of comparisons and isomorphs (involving both similarity and difference) with his own experience of caste and colonial domination in India (Anand 1995: 35–6). And notwithstanding the roster of eminent intellectuals he met in London, he was also keen to talk to members of the working class. Anand records that in a pub opposite the British Museum he befriended two transport workers, Bill Bland and Harry Tomkins, who had both served in the British Army in India, the latter having become an autodidact, socialist and Irish Republican.
After all, the United States also identified itself with universal values, but the difference was that this identification no longer rested on the particularities of a distinctly national culture, character and tradition, but on the more abstract paradigms of America’s constitutional arrangement, formal democratic institutions and economic modernisation, identified with the legally enshrined priority of private property. The very abstractness of these structures meant that they were potentially transferable without demanding the wholesale transformation of the cultural traditions and habits of the host society.
Indd 17 10/05/2011 12:10 18 Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies is that taken together, these two accounts of the relativisation of an ostensibly universal imperial culture help to map the blocked and partial decolonisation of British post-imperial culture, understood as an ‘incomplete . . project’ (Premnath 2000: 59). While Marx’s emphasis is on the way in which localisation and relativisation spring-boarded British involvement in the new US world system, Esty’s focus on nationalism indicates how that transnational involvement was articulated through a decidedly national framework, which often generated representations that occlude or deny that very transnationalism.