National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gui, Weihsin, 1978- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2013.
Series:Transoceanic studies.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433905406719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : constellations, critical nationality, and literary cosmopolitics
  • Articulating Adorno with postcolonial critique : Fanon, Said, Spivak
  • "More English than English" : Kazuo Ishiguro's negation of national nostalgia
  • "The possibilities of the new country we are making" : transnational fragments and national consciousness in Derek Walcott's writing
  • "Not monological but multilogical" : gender, hybridity, and national narratives in Shirley Geok-Lin Lim's writing
  • Ethnographic tactics and the cosmopolitical aesthetic in contemporary Malaysian fiction
  • Conclusion : nation, narration, negation.