Faces of Empire in Graham Swift’s Waterland
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2019.11.11Keywords:
Waterland, Empire, Graham Swift, postcolonial, postmodernAbstract
Aside from being Graham Swift’s most famous piece of writing and probably one of the most praised British novels of the 1980s, Waterland is considered by many critics to be the embodiment of the postmodernist novel. Linda Hutcheon used it as an example to illustrate what she defined as “historical metafiction” and when one thinks of Waterland it is usually in connection with history and the role it plays in the life of ordinary people. It is interesting how, at first glance, the particular kind of history Graham Swift is addressing in this novel seems to escape both reader and critic. On further investigation, however, what does not escape is the underlying presence of Empire in the novel, which is the reason why this paper examines its versatile role in Tom Crick’s version of history.
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