Visceral cosmopolitanism : gender, culture and the normalisation of difference / Mica Nava.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nava, Mica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--England.

City and town life.

Cosmopolitanism--England.

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Contained In:

Bloomsbury Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing

Place of Publication:

London, England : Berg, ©2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

By looking at a range of texts, events and biographical narratives, this book traces cosmopolitanism from its marginal status at the beginning of the twentieth century to its relative normalisation. It offers an account of the uneven history of vernacular cosmopolitanism. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.

Contents:

1. Cosmopolitanism, everyday culture and structures of feeling : the intellectual framework of the book

2. The allure of difference: Selfridges, the Russian ballet and the tango

3. 'The big shop controversy': ideological communities and the Chesterton-Selfridge dispute

4. The unconscious and others: inclusivity, Jews and the eroticisation of difference

5. White women and black men : the Negro as signifier of modernity in wartime Britain

6. Thinking internationally, thinking sexually: race in postwar fiction, film and social science

7. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed: romance, race and the reconfiguration of the nation

8. A love song to our mongrel selves: cosmopolitan habitus and the ordinariness of difference.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786612473722

9781282473720

1282473727

9781847883438

1847883435

OCLC:

609856003