Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial PressEdited by Julie F. Codell
About the Editor:
Julie F. Codell received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington, and is currently Professor of Art History at Arizona State University where she also teaches in the English Department and is an Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies. Her numerous articles on Victorian art and culture have appeared in scholarly journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias. She authored The Victorian Artist: Artists' Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910 (2003), and co-edited (with D. S. Macleod) Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of Colonies on British Culture (1998).
This book explores the creation of imperial identities in Britain and several of its colonies-South Africa, India, Australia, Wales-and the ways in which the Victorian press around the world shaped and reflected these identities. The concept of co-histories, borrowed from Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, helps explain how the press shaped the imperial and national identities of Britain and of the colonies into co-histories that were thoroughly intertwined and symbiotic. Exploring a variety of press media (gazetteers, atlases, newspapers, journals, wire service, press organizations), this book argues that the press was a site of resistance and revision by colonized authors and publishers, as well as a force of colonial authority for the British government. The book's authors come from Canada, the U. K., the U. S., Australia, and India, and apply many disciplines in their essays: history, literature, anthropology, and art history, and new fields such as gender, imperial, and media studies. They analyze the writings of British and colonial writers, editors, and publishers, who projected a view of the empire of their British colonial, and colonized readers.ISBN 0-8386-3973-9, Price $57.50
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