Worlds within : National narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing /

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This book tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century. While globalization has sometimes been understood as superseding national borders, the book distances itself from before-and-after sequences in order to trace the intersection between national a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cooppan, Vilashini
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Nationalism and literature > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Nationalisme et littérature > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature, Modern
Nationalism and literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : inner territories
  • National imaginaries, global flows, and uncanny repetitions : Conrad's Heart of darkness and the postcolonial novel
  • The soul of nationhood : W.E.B. Du Bois and the psychic politics of place
  • Ghostly forms : race, nation, and genre in Frantz Fanon
  • My nation, my object : Severo Sarduy's fantasmatic Cuba
  • Postscript : remapping nationalism.

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