Description |
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction -- E.M. Forster, A passage to India -- Ivo Andrić, The bridge on the Drina -- Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in stone: the costs of being small -- Gabriel García Márquez, The autumn of the patriarch -- Sahar Khalifeh, Wild thorns: the worst boundary problem in the world -- V.S. Naipaul, A bend in the river -- Nuruddin Farah, Maps -- Rhea Galanaki, The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: the trouble with Crete -- Salman Rushdie, The satanic verses -- Orhan Pamuk, Snow -- Roberto Bolaño, 2666: apocalypse in a border town -- Khaled Hosseini, A thousand splendid suns: and some conclusions |
Summary |
Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of fiction. Novels are uniquely capable of dealing with abstract problems by embodying them in the experience of persons, thereby rendering them more "real." Patterson takes twelve novels from (almost) all over the world: India, Africa, Turkey, Crete, the Balkans, Palestine, Afghanistan, South America, and Mexico, novels which illustrate the dire effects of some of the following: imperialism, partition, annexation, ethnic and religious strife, boundaries redrawn by aggression, the virus of dictatorships, the vulnerability of small countries, and the meddling of the Great Powers. All are highly instructive, and excellent reads |
Notes |
"Maps by Daniel Mugaburu"--Title page verso |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Internationalism in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Fiction
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Internationalism in literature
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Nationalism in literature
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Romaner -- historia.
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Internationalism i litteraturen.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Globalization.
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Human geography.
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Literature.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Mugaburu, Daniel M., 1976- cartographer.
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ISBN |
030021040X |
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9780300210408 |
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