An empire gone bad: Agatha Christie, Anglocentrism and decolonization
An empire gone bad: Agatha Christie, Anglocentrism and decolonization
Recent scholarly accounts of early post-war society have emphasized the importance of positive and self-congratulatory narratives of decolonization – whereby the end of empire was the inevitable result of a pro-active British beneficence – or have suggested that society was shielded from a sense of imperial decline. Such accounts are complicated by Agatha Christie’s immensely popular crime novels, which constructed a narrative of British decline rooted in a sense of departure from pre-war ideals of imperial masculinity, but whose Anglocentrism nevertheless offered up the potential for imperial renewal pending a ‘rediscovery’ of such characteristics.
Empire, Decolonization, Race, Fiction
197-213
Prior, Christopher
01a410aa-e20e-4b41-922c-7b2adf8a9265
28 July 2018
Prior, Christopher
01a410aa-e20e-4b41-922c-7b2adf8a9265
Prior, Christopher
(2018)
An empire gone bad: Agatha Christie, Anglocentrism and decolonization.
Cultural and Social History, 15 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/14780038.2018.1427354).
Abstract
Recent scholarly accounts of early post-war society have emphasized the importance of positive and self-congratulatory narratives of decolonization – whereby the end of empire was the inevitable result of a pro-active British beneficence – or have suggested that society was shielded from a sense of imperial decline. Such accounts are complicated by Agatha Christie’s immensely popular crime novels, which constructed a narrative of British decline rooted in a sense of departure from pre-war ideals of imperial masculinity, but whose Anglocentrism nevertheless offered up the potential for imperial renewal pending a ‘rediscovery’ of such characteristics.
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Submitted date: 31 July 2016
Accepted/In Press date: 23 August 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 January 2018
Published date: 28 July 2018
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Empire, Decolonization, Race, Fiction
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