A Postmodern Nationalist
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A Postmodern Nationalist
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Author : Phillip Rothwell
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2004
A Postmodern Nationalist written by Phillip Rothwell and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This is the first book in the English language devoted to the study of the work of Mozambique's leading contemporary author, Mia Couto. Couto's fiction is riddled by a central paradox - it forges a distinct postmodern national identity for a country historically plagued by repeated and detrimental interference from abroad. Phillip Rothwell argues that Couto is a writer who eschews and reinforces the national frontier. In fact, Couto produces a cultural phenomenon that is markedly Mozambican by corrupting aspects of the European legacy Portugal left on the African continent, fusing this distortion with a corrupted version of African heritage, and demarcating literary boundaries through fluidity." "The book details Couto's life and literary trajectory, and interprets essential aspects of Mozambican political and cultural history before undertaking a range of analyses of his work. The postmodern relativization of the concept of a unitary truth furnishes the springboard for an interrogation of what "truth" has meant to Mozambique as exemplified in Couto's texts. The paradoxes inherent in the politics of orthography are scrutinized in Couto's universe to illustrate the aporia prevalent in an atavistic reclaiming of a pre-Portuguese system of writing. Rothwell then engages with the moral meaning of orality and literacy in the tradition Couto both defies and defines, to demonstrate Couto's simultaneous disavowal of misographic and graphophile epistemologies. The manners in which Couto breaches the frontier between the conscious and unconscious realms and blurs gender distinctions are read alongside traditional delineations in order to understand the extent to which Couto's message is radically political. Rothwell concludes with a reading of one of Couto's most potent works in which, through an empowering attack on the United Nations' invasion of Mozambique, Couto enjoins his fellow nationals to begin to resist the postmodern age." "Couto's ambivalent use of the tropes of postmodernism are discussed throughout the book, particularly the way in which it has evolved into a political agenda that is fiercely Mozambican. Rothwell demonstrates Couto's reevaluation of Grand Narratives and shows how, in the case of the Mozambican culture of today, postmodernism has become the only Grand Narrative left worth critiquing." "Rothwell explores a broad cross-section of Couto's literary output, from his early short stories to his more recent novels. He places these within the context of a Mozambican and wider lusophone cultural backdrop, providing essential reading and source of reference for all interested in contemporary Portuguese, African, and world literatures."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Beyond Nationalist Frames
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Author : Sumit Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-20
Beyond Nationalist Frames written by Sumit Sarkar and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-20 with History categories.
The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.
Beyond Nationalist Frames
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Author : Sumit Sarkar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Beyond Nationalist Frames written by Sumit Sarkar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Hinduism and state categories.
Critique on Indian history and the politcal context.
Re Enchanting Nationalisms
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Author : Brad West
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-04-13
Re Enchanting Nationalisms written by Brad West and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with Social Science categories.
This book provides original insight into the way we now engage and remember national history. Drawing on fieldwork and analysis of international case studies on state commemoration, memorialization, recreational and tourism and times of disaster and crisis, the author demonstrates that not only does the nation frequently retain a strong cultural relevance in our global world but that the emergence of new forms of ritual and remembrance means that in many instances we are seeing the re-enchantment of nationalism. Drawing upon and developing an empirically informed cultural sociology, the author charts the distinctive qualities of these new national rites and how they feed into and advance particular cosmopolitan and orthodox national politics. Because social science has so often wrongly assumed the end of nationalism, the insights of this of the book about the possibilities and limitations of contemporary nationalism demand serious consideration by academics and also by policy makers and the general public.
Nationalism And Modernism
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Author : Prof Anthony D Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Nationalism And Modernism written by Prof Anthony D Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Political Science categories.
The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces the changing view of this hotly discussed topic within the current political, cultural and socioeconomic arena. He also analyses the contributions of such historians, sociologists and political scientists as Seton-Watson, Reynolds, Hastings, Horowitz and Brass. The survey concludes with an analysis of post-modern approaches to national identity, gender and nation, making it indispensable reading to all those interested in gaining full and authoritative knowledge of nationalism.
Landscapes Of Postmodernity
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Author : Petra Eckhard
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2010
Landscapes Of Postmodernity written by Petra Eckhard and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Landscapes of Postmodernity, a group of young scholars link key concepts of postmodern thought to our present everyday experience in which we change our identities on a regular basis. While many of the essays look at less conventional modes of aesthetic representation - computer games, graphic novels, telenovelas, queer and animated films - others analyze more canonical works following less conventional approaches. Either way, the cultural and literary cartographies presented in this book allow America to be conceived as polymorphous or transnational, celebrating a new American self that is aware and proud of its non-Anglo-Saxon origins.
Prophets Facing Backward
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Author : Meera Nanda
language : en
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Release Date : 2006
Prophets Facing Backward written by Meera Nanda and has been published by Orient Blackswan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nationalism categories.
Prophets Facing Backward
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Author : Meera Nanda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Prophets Facing Backward written by Meera Nanda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Hindutva categories.
Examines The Intellectual Sources Of Reactionary Modernism-Hindu Nationalist Biogotry. Looks At The Ideology Of Hindutva And Argues That The Secularization Of Cultural Commonsense Is The Best Answer To It. Has 3 Parts Containing 11 Chapters.
Our Shadowed Present
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Author : J. C. D. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Release Date : 2003
Our Shadowed Present written by J. C. D. Clark and has been published by Atlantic Books (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
At a time of the widespread rejection of history by politicians and intellectuals, Jonathan Clark's new book is a landmark defence of continuity: a key account of how public morality, civic involvement and our sense of tradition depend on what historians write.
Post Pop
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Author : Stephen Alomes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Post Pop written by Stephen Alomes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A collection of seven articles and a thematic bibliography of popular culture written by lecturers and editors such as Stephen Alomes, Paul James and Andrew Milner. The collection evolved from a joint Footscray Institute of Technology/Deakin University seminar held in 1989.