Inhaltszusammenfassung

Because of the British history of empire and its ongoing cultural reverberations, Britain lives in a curious state of interaction between the present and the past. The fundamental and widespread tendency to nostalgia in British culture takes many forms in television texts: it can be conservative and restorative, but can also reflect on and interrogate master narratives of empire and create counter narratives with reference to events and figures that are not (yet) part of official British hist...Because of the British history of empire and its ongoing cultural reverberations, Britain lives in a curious state of interaction between the present and the past. The fundamental and widespread tendency to nostalgia in British culture takes many forms in television texts: it can be conservative and restorative, but can also reflect on and interrogate master narratives of empire and create counter narratives with reference to events and figures that are not (yet) part of official British history. The article discusses a number of television texts (documentaries and other comedy) offering counter versions of the dominant narrative of a white British empire. » weiterlesen» einklappen

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