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Challenging Euro-America's politics of identity : the return of the native /
Jorge Fernandes' book takes its subtitle, Return of the Native, from Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel. However, unlike Hardy's returning native, the native with whom he is concerned is a nomad whose trajectory of movement maps important aspects of the contemporary and increasingly globalized...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Colección: | Rethinking globalizations ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Jorge Fernandes' book takes its subtitle, Return of the Native, from Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel. However, unlike Hardy's returning native, the native with whom he is concerned is a nomad whose trajectory of movement maps important aspects of the contemporary and increasingly globalized world." "In theoretically deep yet accessible discussions, the author treats a range of sources: film, fiction, political theory and state policy. By tracing the nomadic movement of bodies across national frontiers this book helps us to question any natural link between nation-states and identities, and between places and peoples. This is not merely a theoretical problem, as Fernandes relates it to the very current crisis of nativist/multicultural identity in the West. The author takes globalization seriously, but rather than focusing on its economic or institutional manifestations, he examines how politics takes shape in transnational social and cultural encounters, and how this new politics is not just about containing aliens, but also contains fruitful possibilities for different modes of being." "This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in Politics, Geography, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, African and African-American Studies, Comparative Literature, American Studies and Ethnic Studies |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 178 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203933824 0203933826 1135977003 9781135977009 1135977011 9781135977016 1281100978 9781281100979 9786611100971 6611100970 |