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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777493203321

Autore

Nava Mica

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Berg, , ©2007

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-282-47372-7

9786612473722

1-84788-343-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Classificazione

15.50

Disciplina

306.0942

Soggetti

City and town life - England

Cosmopolitanism - England

Cultural studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.