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Performing national identity : Anglo-Italian cultural transactions /

National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 114.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances--ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to 'cultural performances' such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media--that cultural identity a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781435615441
1435615441
9789401205238
940120523X
9042023147
9789042023147
ISSN:0929-6999 ;