Gender, nation, text : exploring constructs of identity / edited by Lorraine Kelly, Tina-Karen Pusse, Jennifer Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Lorraine, 1976- editor.

Pusse, Tina-Karen, 1973- editor.

Wood, Jennifer (Jennifer Irene), 1971- editor.

Series:

Kulturwissenschaft (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) ; Bd. 55.

Kulturwissenschaft ; Band 55 = Cultural studies ; volume 55 = Estudios culturales = Études culturelles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Cross-cultural studies.

Gender identity.

Gender identity--Political aspects.

National characteristics--Cross-cultural studies.

National characteristics.

Identity (Psychology).

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ii, 259 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wien : Lit, [2017]

Summary:

"This collection aims to explore the multifarious manifestations of gender intrinsic to national ideologies, the use of gender in the construction and development of nation states, and the role of political, literary and cinematographic discourses in cultural debates that define national and international borders in postcolonial societies. The selected essays focus primarily on Europe and Latin America and consider the implications of colonialism, dictatorship and transition to democracy on national identities as well as the deliberate use of gendered language and images in the development of discourses of hegemony, frequently used to underpin support for individual political regimes, or as a call to arms to defend national patrimony"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Debating the feminine: women, war, and national identity in twentieth century British parliamentary debates / Carol Staunton

Telling tales of conquest and independence: feminising (French) Algeria / Aoife Connolly

Fuckland (dir. José Luis Marqués, Atomic Films, 2000): sovereignty, gender & the Falklands/Malvinas conflict / Jennifer Wood

The history of Chile through the voice of mythical grandmothers in Marta Blanco's Memoria de Ballenas (2009) / Diletta Panero

Exposing gender norms in Chile: a textual analysis of Isabel Allende's Inés del alma mía (2006) / Céire Broderrick

Ireland's abortion regime on the global stage: performative acts and the claim to sovereignty in foreign policy discourse / Niamh Reilly

'The Wake Orgies': traditional Irish wake games and transgressive performance / Jeannine Woods

Writing the self and writing the other: memory, trauma and suicide in Peter Handke's Wunschloses Unglück (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams) / Simone Klapper

The sacred and the monstrous mother. Deconstructing German/Austrian myths of maternity / Tina-Karen Pusse

Masculinities and femininities in the Belgian New World order / Catherine Emerson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3643909403

9783643909404

OCLC:

1004252296

Publisher Number:

99977856343