Showing posts with label Empire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Empire. Show all posts

Fall 2024 Teaching: Virginia Woolf (Grad Seminar)

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Short Description:  Virginia Woolf is a towering figure of the modern novel. She is also a highly influential and accomplished essayist and ...

Virginia Woolf, "Thunder at Wembley" (1924)

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Virginia Woolf, "Thunder at Wembley." Published in The Nation and the Athenaeum , June 28, 1924 It is nature that is the ruin of W...

Mulk Raj Anand: on the Language Debate and his Aunt's Caste-related Suicide

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For a long time I resisted reading much of Mulk Raj Anand's work -- there simply seemed to be too much, and much of what I had looked at...

"I Wanna Be Like You": The Jungle Book, Revisited

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Being a parent gives you a chance to go back over the children's stories you grew up with and even, in some cases, learn about new ones....

Coolies -- How Britain Re-Invented Slavery

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On Video.google, the BBC has itself posted a complete one-hour documentary, exposing the 19th-century British practice of Indentured Labour,...

History Lessons: From the Sepoy Mutiny (1857) to Iraq (Today)

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I'm sorry I've been a slack blogger of late -- I was finishing up another article for a journal, this time on blogging, anonymity, a...

Payless Shoes, Lipton Tea.... and the British Empire

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A connection made through the magic of semiotics. The following is from an interview in n+1 Magazine: A.S. Hamrah [ASH] : But you can...