Reviewing Imperial Conflicts

Product Description
This volume of essays investigates, across a wide range of texts and with an emphasis on the notion of conflict, the various forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustained the "European civilizing mission." At the heart of this volume is two controversial and conflicting papers, authored by Robert JC Young and Bernard Porter, around which other researchers come together to complement the debate and address some of the thorny issues that arise from reviewing colonial and postcolonial conflicts. Under the aegis of history and cultural studies, as well as film studies, the contributors in this collection share the common purpose of reviewing imperial conflicts while arguing for their own research agendas. From opposition and conflict, new perspectives on those cultural processes, within the particular context of the British Empire, are gained.
About the Author
Ana Cristina Mendes is a Researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and specializes in postcolonial and migration studies, with an emphasis on the cultural industries and exchanges in the global cultural marketplace. Her publications include the monograph Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace (Ashgate, 2013), the edited collection Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2012) and the co-edited book Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics (Routledge, 2011). Cristina Baptista is a journalist and writer. As a Researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies since 2008, her main field of interest has been the colonial encounter and the arguments of colonialism, as well as Victorian Studies and Women Studies.