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Going Global: Empire, Identity, and the Politics of Performance

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Kathleen Wilson
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Stony Brook

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References

1 See, e.g., Dening, Greg, Performances (Chicago, 1996)Google Scholar; Roach, Joseph, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (New York, 1996)Google Scholar; Butler, Judith, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (London, 1993)Google Scholar.

2 Kidd, Colin, British Identities before Nationalism (Cambridge, 2000)Google Scholar; Chaplin, Joyce, “Race,” in The British Atlantic World 1600–1800 (Basingstoke, 2002), pp. 154–55Google Scholar.

3 See, e.g., Marshall, Tristan, Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages under James VI and I (Manchester, 2000)Google Scholar.

4 Wilson, Kathleen, The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2003), pp. 189200Google Scholar.

5 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Cambridge, Mass., 1999)Google Scholar.

6 Roy, Parama, “At Home in the World? The Gendered Cartographies of Globality,” Feminist Studies 27 (2001): 709–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Colley, Linda, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837 (New Haven, Conn., 1992)Google Scholar; Wilson, The Island Race, passim, and Wilson, Kathleen, ed., A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire 1660–1840 (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 2223Google Scholar.