"""This, This Is England, but We Only Passed By."" Reclamations and Subversions of English National Identity in Works by Woolf, Waugh, Rhys and Naipaul"
Olson, Lucia Thomas
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Title
"""This, This Is England, but We Only Passed By."" Reclamations and Subversions of English National Identity in Works by Woolf, Waugh, Rhys and Naipaul"
Author(s)
Olson, Lucia Thomas
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
James Hurt
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, Caribbean
Language
eng
Abstract
"Orlando and Decline and Fall lament the ""decline"" of an aristocratically-dominated, rural England forever changed by the incursions of modernity, the bourgeoisie, and colonial subjects. V.S. Naipaul's postcolonial work The Enigma of Arrival, problematizes the very notion of a past, perfect England and an English national identity available to all English subjects, revealing instead that a static English past never existed, and that Naipaul will never wholly participate in the English national identity that interpellates him as a subject, not a citizen. Jean Rhys's postcolonial text, Voyage in the Dark, painfully exemplifies the fallout of a marketed English national identity and fantasy England on colonial subjects in its depiction of Anna Morgan's alienation and disenchantment in England. Nevertheless, despite Naipaul and Rhys's poignant portrayals of the alienation experienced by colonial subjects in England, their texts demonstrate the power of postcolonial texts in articulating an English national identity that is neither white nor aristocratic."
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