‘I Have a Voice’: speech, silence and the rehabilitation of empire.

This article grapples with the performativity of speech as a crucial site through which empire brings into being that which it names. I offer a critique of reading (and rehabilitating) empire as a mild and benign force in conjunction with the popularity of the filmThe King’s Speech(2010) which, I ar...

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Publicado en:	Postcolonial Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 67 - 85
Autor principal:	Shahani, Nishant
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2015
Materias:	Performative (Philosophy) Speech Politics in motion pictures Historiography King's Speech, The (Film)
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