The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation

Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Text and Nation

Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Part 1: Subjectivities

A.    Affect & Memory Studies

1.     The National Guilt Novel: A Transnational Perspective

Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż

2.     Redemptions of Past Futures in Yael Bartana’s Work

Mazalit Haim

3.     Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature

Sheera Talpaz

4.     Post-Brexit Nation, Anxious Communities, and Affective Politics in Sarah Moss’s Summerwater

Wiktoria Tunska

B.    Gender, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism

5.     On the Thoughtlessness of Not Reading: National Allegory and Sexual Violence in A.B. Yehoshua’s The Lover

Oren Yirmiya

6.     Biwi ya Tawaif/Wife or Courtesan: Sites of Female Representation in Bombay Cinema of the “Fifties Moment”

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

7.     Padmaavat and Manikarma: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema

Rituparna Sengupta

8.     Heart-to-Heart Conversations After September 11: Nation and National Belonging in Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams and Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter

Özlem Atar

C.    Interrogating Normativity: Queerness and Disability

9.     Performing Queer Citizenship Across Law and Literature

Namrata Verghese

10.  “A Country Far Away as Health”: Hannah Arendt, Prosthetic Speech, and Political Community

Andrew David King

Part II: Temporalities

A.    Historical and Historiographic Interventions

11.  Suspicion, Anxiety, and Revenge: Deconstructing the Zionist Hermeneutics of a National Hebrew Poet

                              Hannan Hever

12.  Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Hindi Cinema

Ravi S. Vasudevan

13.  Nation and the Modern Hero: A Study of Early South Indian Novels

Gayatri Thanu Pillai

14.  Constituting the Nation: Chile’s Constitution and the Reimagination of National Identity

Steven S. Volk

B.    Contemporary Flux: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Universalism

15.  Universalism and Other Nationalisms: Re-Reading Milton After 9/11

Samuel P. Catlin

16.  The Desti/nation of Sri Lanka: Mapping the Cosmopolitan-Capitalist Framework of Cultural Tourism

Shelby E. Ward

17.  Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pabón and the Critique of the National in Puerto Rico, 1993-2003.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

C.    “National Allegories”

18.  Sectarian Gothic: Egyptian Necromantics on the Lebanese Mountain

Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)

19.  The Nation at a Wobbly Juncture

Rania Elshabassy

20.  Indo-Trinidadian Navigations of Belonging, Nationhood, and Diasporic Identity

Victoria Chang

D.    Utopian Horizons

21.  Writing Beyond the Nation: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun

22.  Bacchus in Bucolic Britain: The Textual Unconscious of Sex Education in a Divided United Kingdom

Stuart Innes Molloy

23.  Aryan Racism and Political Utopianism in Catalan Nationalism

Cesar Guarde-Paz

Part III: Sites

A.    Museums and Other Archives of Material Culture

24.  Wild Places and Glass Cases: Un/tamed Landscapes, Museum Exhibitions, and the American Identity in the Long Nineteenth

Sofia Lago

25.  Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National Subject

Sarah Abdullah

26.  Imagined Communities of Dress: Early Modern Costume Books and the Perception of National Identities

Emilia Olechnowicz

27.  Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine Aquarium

Eeva Savolainen

B.    The Medical Humanities: Pandemic Spaces

28.  Healing Movements Across America: Connections of Gender, Place, and Struggle in the Pandemic Cinema of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS

Edward Chamberlain

29.  Writing the Good Story, Reading the Nation

Carlos Rojas

C.    Crossing and Renegotiating Borders: Travel, Transnationalism, and Micronatiohood

30.  The Western and the Literary Construction of Polishness in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Marek Paryż

31.  Scripted Borders: Constructing “Nation” through the Performance of Micronationhood

Robert Motum

32.  (Trans)National Woes: Translating and Reading the Nation Away

Başak Çandar

Biography

Sheera Talpaz is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is completing her first monograph on the figure and concept of the national poet in Palestinian and modern Hebrew literature, for which she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award.

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently retired as Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College, USA. She has published extensively on anglophone postcolonial literatures, feminist theory and on the work of Shyam Benegal, a filmmaker associated with Parallel or New Indian Cinema.