Imperial Culture and the Sudan: Authorship, Identity and the British Empire

by Lia Paradis

Book Overview

General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity.Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire - why were these colonial administrators characterized as 'adventurers'? Why was Sudan and the story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755637534
• ISBN13: 9780755637539
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"