Imperial Culture and the Sudan: Authorship, Identity and the British Empire by Lia Paradis

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234mm x 164mm x 19mm

Pages: 264

Product Description

General Gordons death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for childrens stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity.Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire GÇô why were these colonial administrators characterized as adventurers? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudans experience tells us a lot about the British Empire GÇô how it was made, consumed and remembered.

About the Author

Lia Paradis is Chair of the History department at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA.