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Worlds within : national narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing / Vilashini Cooppan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooppan, Vilashini.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism and literature--History--20th century.
- Nationalism and literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (387 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Conrad to Rushdie, from Du Bois, to Nggi, Worlds Within explores the changing form of novels, nations, and national identities, by attending to the ways in which political circumstances meet narratives of the psyche.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction: Inner Territories; 2 N National Imaginaries, Global Flows, and Uncanny Repetitions: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the Postcolonial Novel; 3 The Soul of Nationhood: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Psychic Politics of Place; 4 Ghostly Forms: Race, Nation, and Genre inFrantz Fanon; 5 New Nations, New Novels; 6 My Nation, My Object: Severo Sarduy'sFantasmatic Cuba; Postscript: Remapping the Nation; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804772501
- 0804772509
- OCLC:
- 609855916
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