Postimperial English Culture and the Long Twentieth Century

本研究表明，当前的英国文化本身深深地嵌入并积极地参与了全球化和新帝国主义的各种发展，不能用当前的政治保守主义（“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充分解释。相反，考虑到漫长的20世纪的叙事模式，我认为，对后帝国时期英国文化的更充分的解释是在布卢姆斯伯里集团的自由主义、英国遗产电影和文学/文化理论的跨大西洋扩张中探索的，在这些理论中，帝国文化的历史以元历时或谱系学的方式被不同地追溯。

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.