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Global Perspectives on Nationalism Political and Literary Discourses
Global Perspectives on Nationalism takes an interdisciplinary approach informed by recent theorisations of nationalism to examine perennial questions on the topic.
The idea of nationalism centres on questions of ethnicity, culture, religion, language, and access to resources. What determines consciousness of nationalism? How is nationalism manifested, shaped, or countered through literary and cultural productions? The contributors highlight topical areas in studies of nationalism including ecology, natural resources, sustainability, globalisation, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, indigeneity, folklore, popular culture, and queer theory. They develop innovative perspectives on nationalism through in-depth analyses of the theoretical, political, literary, linguistic, cultural, and ecological dimensions of nationalism in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, the United States, and elsewhere. This volume underscores the importance of generative dialogue between disciplines in assessing the implications of nationalism for everyday life through five thematic sections: (I) Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration; (II) Religion, Identity, and Heritage; (III) Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism; (IV) Music, Lyricism, and Poetics; and (V) Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives.
This book will be of particular value to students and researchers in philosophy, literary studies, and political theory with interests spanning ecology, ethnicity, folklore, gender, heritage, identity, linguistics, nationalism, nationhood, religion, and sexuality.
1 Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Nationalism
DEBAJYOTI BISWAS, PANOS ELIOPOULOS, AND JOHN C. RYAN
SECTION I: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration
2 “Liberal Nationalism”: A Theoretical Oxymoron or an Empirical Way Forward?
PHILLIP MITSIS
3 Nation as War Narration: The Revolutionary Epics and its Ethnicity
UGO VLAISAVLJEVIĆ
4 A Century of Lebanon (1920–2020): A Brief Review
ROY JREIJIRY
SECTION II: Religion, Identity, and Heritage
5 Ethnic Identities and the “Contested” Idea of a Nepal State
ABHIJIT DIHIDAR
6 The Nation and Its Discontents: The Structural Face of Turkish Nationalism
SAVAŞ DEDE
7 Constellation, Not Sequencing Carries the Truth: Olga Tokarczuk’s Nomadic Flight from Homogenous National Identity
PATRYCJA AUSTIN
SECTION III: Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism
8 Bilingualism in Bangladeshi Education and the Question of National Identity
FAHEEM HASAN SHAHED
9 Deconstructing Assamese Nationalism Vis-à-vis Indian Nationalism
DEBAJYOTI BISWAS
10 Nationalism and Invention of Tradition in Argentinean Folk Narrative Archives: From the 1921 Folk Survey to the Collections of the 21st Century
MARIA PALLEIRO
SECTION IV: Music, Lyricism, and Poetics
11 Scotland Hymns for His Identity: The National Anthem in Progress
AYŞEGÜL DEMIR
12 Of Poetry and Nationalism: Articulating Charles Bernstein’s Poetics of the Americas and the Democratic Space of Poetry
GOUTAM KARMAKAR AND NISARGA BHATTACHARJEE
13 Nationhood and Sexual Dissidence: From Walt Whitman’s Adhesive Camerados to Larry Kramer’s De-kiked Faggots
J. EDGAR BAUER
14 Racial Identity and the American Nation in Langston Hughes’ Short Story “Home”
NISA HARIKA GÜZEL KÖŞKER
SECTION V: Ecology, Environment, and Non- Human Lives
15 “Dressed in Native Trees”: Plants as Figures of Anti-National Resistance in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry
JOHN C. RYAN
16 Local Wisdom and Sustainable Praxis in the Anthropocene: The Green Nationalism of the Sedulur Sikep Community of Central Java, Indonesia
HENRIKUS JOKO YULIANTO
17 China’s Ecological Civilization: A National Narrative with Global Ambitions
SOPHIA KALANTZAKOS
18 Ethnonationalism and Econationalism in the Age of Carbon Democracy: Ruud Elmendorp’s Documentary Film Ken Saro Wiwa: All For My People
STEPHEN OGHENERURO OKPADAH
19 The Splintered Roots of “Heimat”: On the “German” Oak’s Arboreal Memory
SOLVEJG NITZKE
Biography
Debajyoti Biswas is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English at Bodoland University, India. His research interests include Anglophone Fiction from northeast India, issues of identity and nationalism, Postcolonial Theory, and Environmental Humanities.
Panos Eliopoulos is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He received the Orlyk Award from the National Dragomanov University of Kiev, Ukraine, for his contribution to world philosophical research, as well as the Award of Moral and Political Sciences from the Academy of Athens, Greece. His research focuses on Moral and Political Philosophy.
John C. Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute at Notre Dame University, Australia. His research focuses on Aboriginal Australian literature, Southeast Asian ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and critical plant studies.
