1st Edition
Making Subject(s) Literature and the Emergence of National Identity
By Allen Carey-Webb
Copyright 1999
257 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national identity in Europe and the Third World. The author explores historical periods of nation building in Europe (Early Modernism) and the postcolonial world (post-1945 decolonization) to demonstrate that intriguingly similar circumstances of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Colonizing Nations and the Public Theater in Early Modern Spain and England; Chapter 2 Other-Fashioning; Chapter 3 Imagi/Native Nation; Part II Anticolonial Nationalism and the Postcolonial Novel; Chapter 4 Pedagogical and Performative Nationalism in Ousmane Sembène's Les bouts de bois de Dieu; Chapter 5 (Dis)Integrating Nation and Self; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
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Carey-Webb, Allen
"What distinguishes this study from similar ones is the author's thorough comparison of the topic across genres, historical moments and traditions...He literally breaches the boundaries of canonicity not just by juxtaposing these works and treating them as world literature but also does an admirable job in meticulously analysing the dialogue between them." -- Lifongo Vetinde, Lawrence University, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
