Front Cover; Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters'; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; 1. Ethnographic fiction and autobiographical 'truth'; 2. Orientalist vision and the carnivalesque of'revelations'; 3. Foreground to background: from locality to 'nation'; 4. 'The winner takes it all': the coming of secondmodernity; 5. The Original Theft (and other treacherousreligiosities); 6. Leviathan revealed; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The book reconsiders definitional relationships of 'national character' and 'national heritage' in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that today they continue to play a significant role in global circulations of national heritage by creative industries
