| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 354 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural memory in the present |
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 and global politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism and literature -- History -- 20th century
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Literature, Modern
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Nationalism and literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804772501 |
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0804772509 |
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