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Author Layoun, Mary N., 1949-

Title Wedded to the land? : gender, boundaries and nationalism in crisis / Mary Layoun
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2001

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 MELB  809.40358 L4283/W  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Post-contemporary interventions
Post-contemporary interventions.
Contents Introduction: Culturing the Nation -- 1. National Homogeneity and Population Exchanges: Who Belongs Where? - Greece 1922 -- 2. The Gendered Purity of the Nation: Sovereignty and Its Violation, or, Rape by Any Other Name - Cyprus 1974 -- 3. Between Here and There: National Community from the Inside Out and the Outside In - Palestine 1982 -- 4. Thinking Citizens Again: Culture, Gender, and the Silences of the (Never Quite) Nation-State
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Nationalism and literature -- Middle East.
Politics and culture -- Middle East.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.
LC no. 00027926
ISBN 0822325071 cloth alkaline paper
0822325454 paperback alkaline paper