Troubled Legacies: Migrant Fiction and the Internal Limit of Englishness
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This article explores the idea of Englishness through a series of textual examples drawn from English literature. The aim is to create a perspective of continuity which may illuminate some of the connections and links that constitute a vital context for an understanding of the ideological discourse in which post-war migrant fiction is inscribed – historically as well as culturally. Implicit in this endeavour is the argument that post-war migrant fiction to some extent must be seen as a continuation – as well as subversion – of a far-reaching trajectory of identity formation, one that is intimately connected to the history of imperial England. The article will in particular pay attention to the dialectic of place and identity, which constitutes a central dynamic of the idea of Englishness; and how this dialectic is inscribed, albeit in a radically different way, in post-war migrant fiction. The inscription of this dialectic of place and identity in the migrant novel constitutes what I will call a “troubled legacy” – what one might see as a post-war inheritance of an idea of imperial and national identity which, in the wake of the collapse of empire in the post-war epoch, becomes a phantasmagorical limit, one that testifies to the absence and lack of identity.
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This article explores the idea of Englishness through a series of textual examples drawn from English literature. The aim is to create a perspective of continuity which may illuminate some of the connections and links that constitute a vital context for an understanding of the ideological discourse in which post-war migrant fiction is inscribed – historically as well as culturally. Implicit in this endeavour is the argument that post-war migrant fiction to some extent must be seen as a continuation – as well as subversion – of a far-reaching trajectory of identity formation, one that is intimately connected to the history of imperial England. The article will in particular pay attention to the dialectic of place and identity, which constitutes a central dynamic of the idea of Englishness; and how this dialectic is inscribed, albeit in a radically different way, in post-war migrant fiction. The inscription of this dialectic of place and identity in the migrant novel constitutes what I will call a “troubled legacy” – what one might see as a post-war inheritance of an idea of imperial and national identity which, in the wake of the collapse of empire in the post-war epoch, becomes a phantasmagorical limit, one that testifies to the absence and lack of identity.
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