Postimperial English Culture and the Long Twentieth Century

本研究项目表明，当前的英国文化本身深深嵌入并积极参与全球化和新帝国主义的各种发展，不能用当前政治保守主义（“后帝国忧郁”）和自由主义和人文主义的多元文化主义的解释方案来解释。相反，考虑到漫长的二十世纪的叙事方案，我认为，对后帝国时代英国文化的更充分的解释，是在布卢姆斯伯里派自由主义的跨大西洋扩张、英国传统电影和文学/文化理论中探索的，在这些理论中，帝国的文化历史以元历时或谱系的方式进行了各种追踪。

This research project has shown that the present English culture, itself deeply embedded in and actively engaged with the various developments of globalization and neo-imperialism, cannot be explained enough by the current interpretative schemes of the political conservatism (“post-imperial melancholy”) and the liberal and humanistic multiculturalism. Rather, taking into consideration the narrative scheme of the long twentieth century, the more adequate interpretation of postimperial English culture, I have argued, is explored in its transatlantic expansions of the liberalism of Bloomsbury Group, English heritage films, and literary/cultural theory, in which history of culture of empire is variously traced in meta-diachronic or genealogical ways.