National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics : Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment /

In this book, the author argues that postcolonial literature written within a framework of globalization still takes nationalism seriously rather than dismissing it as obsolete. Authors and texts often regarded as cosmopolitan, diasporic, or migrant actually challenge globalization’s tendency to tre...

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Hovedforfatter: Gui, Weihsin, 1978-
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
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Summary:In this book, the author argues that postcolonial literature written within a framework of globalization still takes nationalism seriously rather than dismissing it as obsolete. Authors and texts often regarded as cosmopolitan, diasporic, or migrant actually challenge globalization’s tendency to treat nations as absolute and homogenous sociocultural entities. While social scientific theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism as antithetical to transnational economic and cultural flows, this book contends that postcolonial literature represents nationalism as a form of cosmopolitical engagement with what lies beyond the nation’s borders.
Fysisk beskrivelse:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780814271100
Adgang:Open Access