Whittle, Matthew (2014) ‘The hollow shell of nationality’: Competing nationalisms and the emergence of dictatorship in David Caute’s At Fever Pitch. In: Writing Difference: Nationalism, Literature and Identity. Atlantic Books, New Delhi, pp. 189-210. ISBN 978-81-269-1938-3. (KAR id:63716)
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Abstract
In its depiction of the hijacking of the African nationalist movement by a self-serving African middle-class, David Caute’s At Fever Pitch (1959) disrupts unilinear conceptions of British literature of decolonisation and complicates contemporary postcolonial debates around nationalist ideology and practice. Synchronic and diachronic accounts of British literature and the end of Empire have tended to focus on a shared preoccupation with imperial retrenchment (Taylor 1993, Sinfield 1997: 2004, Esty 2004), while the re-emergence of regionalism and state control in developing countries since decolonisation has led many postcolonial critics to view nationalism, as Laura Chrisman holds, as ‘inherently dominatory, absolutist, essentialist and destructive’ (2004: 183). In At Fever Pitch, however, Caute foregrounds the complex transition to independence in Africa and depicts the emergence of a totalitarian form of nationalism as a legacy of British colonial rule.
Item Type: | Book section |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | African decolonisation, end of empire, Frantz Fanon, David Caute |
Subjects: |
P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Matt Whittle |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2017 14:51 UTC |
Last Modified: | 25 Aug 2021 16:33 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/63716 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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