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T1 Playing with Collective Memories: Julian Barne's "England, England" and New Labour's Rebranding of Britain
A1 Navarro Romero, Betsabé
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB In a situation of national identity crisis due to the loss of Empire, globalization and mass migration, Britain has recently been looking for a new orientation of its role in the world. Being an attempt to influence and change the conception of Britishness, New Labour's modernization programme in the 1997 general election illustrates the way national identities, understood as imagined communities, are artificially and conveniently constructed by the political elite. Similarly, history writing, essential for the constitution of the national identity, undergoes an analogous process in which historical accounts are manipulated to exhibit convenient versions of the nation's past. In this context, Julian Barnes's novel England, England (1998) epitomizes a satirical portrayal of the artful construction of Englishness, hyperbolizing New Labour's modernization project.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17402
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17402
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2011, N.32, pags.241-262
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-abr-2024