Post-Empire Imaginaries?

Barbara Buchenau, Ph.D. (2002), University of Göttingen, is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her publications include a book on American settler fiction; a monograph on Typecasting in Colonial North America is under preparation.Virginia Richter, Ph.D. (1997), University of Munich, is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her numerous publications include Literature after Darwin. Human Beasts in Western Fiction, 1859-1939 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Marijke Denger is currently completing her PhD on community in contemporary postcolonial novels at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Contributors are: Elsie Cloete, Mayannah N. Dahlheim, Rainer Emig, Elena Furlanetto, Jana Gohrisch, Alfred Hiatt, Kerstin Knopf, Donna Landry, Karsten Levihn-Kutzler, Michael Meyer, Eva-Maria Müller, Timo Müller, Eva M. Pérez, Judith Raiskin, Cecile Sandten, Silke Stroh, and Anne-Julia Zwierlein.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsBARBARA BUCHENAU AND VIRGINIA RICHTER: Introduction: How to Do Things with EmpiresCONCEPTUALIZING EMPIRES, MAPPING EMPIRESALFRED HIATT: Maps of Empires Past MAYANNAH N. DAHLHEIM: (Re)Writing History: Pankaj Mishra, Niall Ferguson, and the Definitions of EmpireRAINER EMIG: The Hermeneutics of Empire: Imperialism as an Interpretation StrategyKERSTIN KNOPF: Exploring for the Empire: Franklin, Rae, Dickens, and the Natives in Canadian and Australian Historiography and LiteratureEVA–MARIA MÜLLER: Teaching the Empire: Lessons About (In)Dependence: Teacher Figures as Metonyms for the Australian NationDIFFERENT IMAGINARIES: COMPARING EMPIRESDONNA LANDRY: The Ottoman Imaginary of Evliya Ҫelebi: From Postcolonial to Postimperial Rifts in TimeELENA FURLANETTO: “Imagine a Country Where We Are All Equal”: Imperial Nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak’s Ottoman UtopiaSILKE STROH: British (Post)Colonial Discourse and (Imagined) Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo’s Londinium to Caesar’s Britain and GaulEVA M. PÉREZ: “As if Empires Were Great and Wonderful Things”: A Critical Reassessment of the British Empire During World War Two in Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Mark Mills’ The Information Officer and Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans(POST)EMPIRE IMAGINARIES IN HISTORICAL MEDIAANNE–JULIA ZWIERLEIN: Travelling through (Post-)Imperial Panoramas: British Epic Writing and Popular Shows, 1740s to 1840sJUDITH RAISKIN: “No One Belongs Here More Than You”: Travel Ads, Colonial Fantasies, and American MilitarismTIMO MÜLLER: The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film SeriesCONTESTED IMAGINARIES, PERILOUS BELONGINGCECILE SANDTEN: Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood: Othello, the Jews of Portobuffole, and the Post-Empire ImaginaryELSIE CLOETE: Johannesburg Zoologica: Reading the Afropolis Through the Eyes of Lauren Beukes’ Zoo CityKARSTEN LEVIHN–KUTZLER: Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s PeopleMICHAEL MEYER: Something is Foul in the State of Kerala: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small ThingsJANA GOHRISCH: Conflicting Models of Agency in Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010)Notes on the Contributors and Editors Index