Zones of instability : literature, postcolonialism, and the nation / Imre Szeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szeman, Imre, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Nationalism and literature--Commonwealth countries--History--20th century.

Nationalism and literature.

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Commonwealth countries--In literature.

Commonwealth countries.

Caribbean Area--In literature.

Caribbean Area.

Nigeria--In literature.

Nigeria.

Canada--In literature.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

He finds that the "nationcan be read as that space in which literature is thought to be able to conjoin two things that history has separated--the writer and the people.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Politics of Postcolonial Nationalist Literature

1 The Nation as Problem and Possibility

2 Caribbean Space

3 The Novel after the Nation

4 The Persistence of the Nation

Conclusion: National Culture and Globalization

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-235) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-8153-6

OCLC:

70726428