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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Автор: Gui, Weihsin, 1978-
Формат: Електронний ресурс eКнига
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
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Зміст:
  • Introduction : constellations, critical nationality, and literary cosmopolitics
  • Articulating Adorno with postcolonial critique : Fanon, Said, Spivak
  • "More English than English" : Kazuo Ishiguro's negation of national nostalgia
  • "The possibilities of the new country we are making" : transnational fragments and national consciousness in Derek Walcott's writing
  • "Not monological but multilogical" : gender, hybridity, and national narratives in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's writing
  • Ethnographic tactics and the cosmopolitical aesthetic in contemporary Malaysian fiction
  • Conclusion : nation, narration, negation.