Ann Blake, Leela Gandhi and Sue Thomas: England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction.

What has been the dominant perspective of postcolonial studies in its incipient stage, i.e. the imperial gaze or the construction of otherness as emerging from the discourse of the Western ‘civilizing mission’, is reversed by Ann Blake, Leela Gandhi and Sue Thomas in their seminal study, England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Here it is the periphery talking back to the centre, the construction of England and Englishness by authors from the Indian subcontinent, Australia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and Africa which comes under the scrutiny of Australian scholars, all three of them lecturers at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

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