England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction

There has been much focus on the imperial gaze at colonized peoples, cultures, and lands during and after the British Empire. But what have writers from these cultures made of England, the English, and the issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity and desire when they traveled, expatriated, or emigrated to England? The authors address this question through studies of representations of the English, the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman, and through essays on Mansfield, Rhys, Stead, Lessing, Naipaul, Emecheta, Rushdie, and Dabydeen.

Author Biography: Ann Blake is Honorary Associate and was Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University.

Author Biography: Leela Gandhi is Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University.

Author Biography: Sue Thomas is Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University.