![]() ![]() Green Unpleasant Land argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the countryside and Englishness. She is author of Green Unpleasant Land: Creative. This is a shared history: Britons' ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. Corinne Fowler is Professor of Colonialism and Heritage at Museum Studies, University of Leicester. ![]() Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain's cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. It is a striking entry in the light of how Fowler’s and others’ research into the colonial histories of the British countryside have been received. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. The Bradford book burning is mentioned in passing in Green Unpleasant Land, written by Professor Corinne Fowler and published by Peepal Tree Press in December 2020. Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Ĭombining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. Booktopia has Green Unpleasant Land, Creative Responses to Rural Englands Colonial Connections by Corinne Fowler. Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021 ![]()
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