Green Unpleasant Land(English, Paperback, Fowler Corinne)

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Green Unpleasant Land(English, Paperback, Fowler Corinne) is written by Fowler Corinne and published by Peepal Tree Press Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1845234820 (ISBN 10) and 9781845234829 (ISBN 13).

Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021 Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company. Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. 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. This is a shared history: Britons' ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. 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.