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Title Cosmopatriots : on distant belongings and close encounters / editors, Edwin Jurriëns and Jeroen de Kloet
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations
Series Thamyris, intersecting. Place, sex and race ; no. 16
Thamyris intersecting ; no. 16.
Contents Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters; Colophon; Mission Statement; Contents; Introduction: Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters; SEX; SPACE; BODY; Race; Afterword; Contributors; Name Index
Summary This volume analyzes mediated articulations of "cosmopatriotism" in East and South-East Asian popular cultures and arts. Cosmopatriots navigate between a loyalty to the home country and a sense of longing for and belonging to the world. Rather than searching for the truly globalized cosmopolitans, the authors of this collection look for the postcolonial, rooted cosmopolitans who insist on thinking and feeling simultaneously beyond and within the nation. The cultural sites they discuss include Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, Singapore, the United States, South Korea and Australia. They show how me
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cosmopolitanism -- East Asia
Cosmopolitanism -- Southeast Asia
Nationalism -- East Asia
Nationalism -- Southeast Asia
Popular culture -- East Asia
Popular culture -- Southeast Asia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Cosmopolitanism
Nationalism
Popular culture
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Jurriëns, Edwin, 1972-
Kloet, Jeroen de
ISBN 9781435631786
1435631781
9789401205559
9401205558