HomeChapter One: English in (Post)colonial
Contexts (Some Links)
1.1 England Colonised and the Importance of Latin
o Latin and English language and literature
-
The
Age of Reason: The fall and rise of Rome and the spread of English by
Stephen Colbourn
- The
End of Roman Britain: Assessing the Anglo-Saxon Invasions of the Fifth Century
(1994) by William Bakken
-
Anglo-Saxon
England: A Guide to Online Resources by Stuart Lee
- A
Lost Continent of Literature: The rise and fall of Neo-Latin (2001) by James
Hankins
1.2 Ethnicity, Nationality and Language
-
Ethnicity and Race by Dennis O'Neil
- Arnoldian
Ethnology by Vincent P. Pecora
- Reconstructing
'Englishness' by Lawrence Raw
o Effect on literary studies
- Book
notice (1997) by Brooke Allen on Michael Gorra's After
Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
- Two
Reviews of Thomas S. Gladsky's Princes, Peasants,
and Other Polish Selves
1.3 Relativity of power and dominance
- Thomas
Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and Education
o Dominance of language and literature may be determined
by extrinsic forces
-
Emperor's English:
Language as a Technology of Rule in British West Africa (1997) by Paulina L
Alberto
1.4 British Expansion and the Spread of English:
o Britain and the British Isles
- What is the difference between the United Kingdom,
Great Britain, and England?
- What
are the British Isles?
o The rise of British imperialism
- British
Empire Imperialism
- The
British Empire, c.1497-1800 (1998) by Michael S Smith
o The civilising mission of colonialism
- The
British "Civilising Mission" & its Legacy on India's Political
Culture
o Language and Empire
- Language
and Empire: The Vision of Nebrija
- Jennifer Margulis and Peter Nowakoski: Language
o The fall of the British Empire
- The
Decline of European Colonialism
- The
Lingua Franca of the Net by John Horvath
1.5 The Rise of Literature in English and the Empire
o English Literature and Empire
- English
Literature and Empire by Caryl Phillips & Penelope Lively
- The
Empire Writes Back from The College Street Journal (Mount Holyoke
College)
- Postcolonial Literature in English: An Overview of the
Religious Contexts
o Spread of Empire led to the Spread of English Literature
- Western
Education in Nineteenth-Century India (1998) by Tricia Doyle
1.6 Superiority of Language & Dialect
-
The
Worldliness of the English Language: A Lingua Franca Past and Future (1999)
by Eugene Eoyang
o Purity and Socio-Economic Considerations
- Chapter
17.2 of (1896) The Warfare of Science with Theology by Andrew Dickson White
- Slang
in America (1888) by Walt Whitman
o Purity of dialects
- Purism
- Definition of dialect: Language
or dialect?
- Johnson's
Dictionary
o Ranking of dialects of English
- Dialects,
Standards, Myths (1995) by Devi Sarinjeive
- Investigation
of Attitudes to Scots and Glasgow Dialect Among Secondary School Pupils
(1991) by Janet Menzies
o Postcolonial attainment of prestige
- Scots in the
21st Century (2001) by Irene McGugan
1.7 The Canon and Postcolonial Literature(s)
o Definition of Postcolonial Literature(s)
- A
Postcolonial Perspective by Terry DeHay
- New
English Literatures Online by Thorsten Schreiber
o Anglocentrism and Eurocentricism
- Anglocentric,
Eurocentric
(x-refer)
o Binary oppositions
- The
Double and the Center (1999) by David P. Lichtenstein
-
Revising
Postcolonialism (1999) by Stephanie Bachorz
- Lost
in Space by Lawrence Phillips
o Problem with the '-post'
- The
Postcolonial Bazaar (1998) by Bishnupriya Ghosh
- Theories
as Fictions in the Arabo-Islamic Cultural Context (1993) by Michèle Drouart
- "Postcolonial
Literature": Problems with the Term (1998) by Paul Brians
Last revised: 27 December 2010