A Reflection on Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Criticism

DOI

10.2991/hss-26.2016.145How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reflection, Colonial discoure, Post-colonial criticism, Empire of fictions.

Abstract

The British Empire, like the colonial empires of the other European powers, came to an end when independence was granted to previously colonised countries. But many of the values, preconceptions, and cultural stereotypes associated with the imperial world-view have been bequeathed to us. The reasons for this are not hard to determine. A plethora of books dealing with the British imperial experience, as well as television, films and the resources of other media, have contributed to preserving the glories of the imperial past in Britain’s cultural memory and to constructing highly standardized images by means of which the British Empire continues to be remembered.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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