<b>Literacy, imagination and autonomy in <i>House for Mr. Biswas</></b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.10020 by Mariana Bolfarine

“…The novel reveals that the spread of the English language and Englishness became inevitable during British Imperialism since one of the instruments for its propagation was the imposition of the colonizer’s set of values. …”
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No More Uncertain: The Future of the Gurkhas in the British Army by Paulina Stanik

“…However, some call the existence of their military participation a colonial legacy of British imperialism. The aim of this paper is to answer the question on the future of the Nepalese soldiers in the United Kingdom. …”
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“Oh that you were like a brother to me, one who had nursed at my mother's breasts.” Breast Milk as a Kinship-Forging Substance by Cynthia R Chapman

“…Adam Kuper, for example, argues that the notion of blood relatedness is culturally constrained, a uniquely European concept that finds its fullest articulation within British imperialism, an era that coincides with the development of the field of anthropology in Europe.1 Likewise, Edouard Conte, who examines concepts of relatedness within Arab cultures, posits that the notion of kinship being determined by “blood” is a par- ticularly western phenomenon and does not fit the self- understanding of Arabs.2 He argues that Classical Arab physicians deal little with blood and do not see blood as passing on hereditary attributes. …”
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Vampire and Empire: Dracula and the Imperial Gaze by Stu Burns

“…Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was enmeshed in the discourse of British Imperialism, both in its composition and its reception. …”
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English as a Tool of British Political and Linguistic Imperialism in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People by Naeema Shah

“…The study finds that the spread of English is basically a tool used for homogenized attack by British imperialism in order to subdue other cultures, politically and linguistically.…”
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Shams and Cover-ups: The Spectacle of History in Paul Muldoon’s “Meeting the British” and “My Father and I and Billy Two Rivers” by Robert Lesman

“…This deception occurs both in the history of British imperialism and in a technological present in which an Irish father and son must make sense of the shifting and uncertain ground of their own cultural identity.  …”
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Vampire and Empire: Dracula and the Imperial Gaze by Stu Burns

“…Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was enmeshed in the discourse of British Imperialism, both in its composition and its reception. …”
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English as a Tool of British Political and Linguistic Imperialism in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People by Naeema Shah

“…The study finds that the spread of English is basically a tool used for homogenized attack by British imperialism in order to subdue other cultures, politically and linguistically. …”
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British-Irish historical memory: the legacy of the Anglo-Irish conflict in the first four volumes of the Lives Entwined project by Slimane Hargas

“…Lives Entwined, set the tone for the four volumes of essays it has hitherto given birth to, and in which the overarching themes are indeed the strong cultural and historical ties linking British and Irish people and the main stumbling blocks to their reconciliation in decades past, namely the exacerbation of the memory of their strife-ridden past by British imperialism and Irish nationalism, as well as the Troubles in Northern Ireland. …”
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An imperial apostle? St Paul, Protestant conversion, and South Asian Christianity by Das, S

“…This article explores the locally specific (re)construction of a biblical figure, the Apostle St Paul, in India, to unravel the entanglement of religion with British imperial ideology on the one hand, and to understand the dynamics of colonial conversion on the other. …”

‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This inverted imperialist dynamic in fiction, however, has to engage with modes of resistance to British imperialism as they are beginning to manifest themselves in reality. …”
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Of drudgery and domesticity : a comparative history of the Samsui Women and Ma Jie of Nanyang by Tan, Jeanette Hui Ping

“…Whilst the Samsui woman embodies easily the state’s master narrative centred on a hardworking and economic-centric rhetoric, the Majie is instead an uncomfortable symbol of British imperialism and a resistance to the institution of marriage, therefore making her an ambivalent figure in the subject of Singapore’s public memory.…”
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Imperial Atmospheres: Race and Climate Control on the Niger by Dustin Valen

“…It posits climate control as an ecological mission within the broader project of British imperialism, and shows how Western ideas about thermal comfort emerged through a discursive entanglement with racial anthropology and imperial interests in the torrid zone.…”
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Chiefdoms on the margins of the Zulu Kingdom: A case study of Nzama and Ngubane chieftaincies in Kranskop, Umvoti, from the 1820s to 1870s by Siyabonga Nxumalo

“…The chieftaincies in Kranskop in Umvoti seized the opportunity to exercise independence from the Zulu royal family, an opportunity which the advent of British imperialism provided. These chieftaincies decided to support the invading colonial forces during the Anglo-Zulu War of January to September 1879 and participated actively in the colonial armed forces which fought the Usuthu section of the Zulu royal family during the 1880s. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…Though a supporter of British imperialism, Haggard criticized Britain’s political choices in Zululand at the time and tried to show that the principal cause of the conflicts was British ignorance of Zulu society. …”
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Slavery, evangelism, imperialism and identity construction: Malawi (Nyasaland) during the era of the partition of Africa (1875-1900) by César J. Solá García

“…Therefore, evangelism, abolitionism, industrial capitalism, British imperialism, and the creation of colonial identities converged on the problem of slavery in late 19th Century Malawi.…”
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The Masculinist Construction of the National Woman and Her Gendered Practice of Love in the Colonial Bengali Fairy Tale Tradition by Amrita Chakraborty

“…This project of defending Indian tradition, a central aspect of the cultural resistance to British imperialism, was a masculinist project. It reduced women to being mere sites and objects of knowledge.…”
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EARLY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AND WOMEN EDUCATION IN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA: A MODEL FOR THE CHURCH TODAY by Nzeyo Gabriel Eteng

“…Most scholars think that Christianity was used as a tool of British imperialism. Before the advent of Christianity in Cross River State, women were backward and associated with various taboos, they were regarded as people who lacked the potential useful for development other than child-bearing and rearing. …”
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The Ideals of Islam in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s Thoughts and Political Practices: An Appraisal by Dr. Misbah Umar, Fozia Umar

“…Inspiration for Islamic revivalism drew him into political activities aimed at serving the Muslim cause and fighting British imperialism. Maulana Azad‟s sentiments and aspirations for Islam and Muslims echoed loudly during the Khilafat Movement which brought him closer to communal harmony and also resulted in his lasting association with the Indian National Congress. …”
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Joyce, Galway and the Spanish Armada by José Ruiz-Mas

“…Joyce’s employment of the Irish chapter of the Gran Armada’s historical episode contributes with a relevant insight about his perception of British imperialism in Ireland.…”
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