Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by sur

Focuses on the literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago.

In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly infl

In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and m

In this 2002 volume, scholars examine the role of literature in the construction of 'Britishness'.