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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 t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.