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UNINA9910794024803321 |
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Titolo |
The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe / / Ina Habermann |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 |
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1-5261-4510-3 |
1-5261-5555-9 |
1-5261-4509-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Manchester scholarship online |
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British - Attitudes |
Public opinion - Great Britain |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Great Britain Foreign relations European Union countries |
European Union countries Foreign relations Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2020. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : understanding the past, facing the future / Ina Habermann -- Not with a bang but a whimper : Brexit in historical perspective / Robert Holland -- 'This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do' : hopes and fears for a united Europe in Britain after the Second World War / Lara Feigel and Alisa Miller -- EU enlargement and the freedom of movement : imagined communities in the Conservative Party's discourse on Europe (1997-2016) / Marlene Herrschaft- Iden -- The discursive role of Europe in a disunited kingdom / Klaus Stolz -- 'Extr'ord'nary people, the Germans' : Germans as aliens in post-war British popular culture / Judith Vonberg -- 'I don't want to be a European' : the European other in British cultural discourse / Menno Spiering -- The dystopian nightmare of a European superstate : British fiction and the EU / Lisa Bischoff -- A case for a green Brexit? Paul Kingsnorth, John Berger and the pros and cons of a sense of place / Christian Schmitt- Kilb -- Brexit and the Tudor turn : Philippa Gregory's narratives of national grievance / Siobhan O'Connor -- Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs |
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of Dover / Melanie Küng -- From Iron Curtains to Iron Cliffs : British travel writing between East and West / Blanka Blagojevic -- Fifty years of unbelonging : a Gibraltarian writer's personal testimonial on the road to Brexit / M.G. Sanchez. |
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This collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it needs to face Europe if it is to face the future. |
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UNINA9910822925503321 |
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Autore |
Moya Paula M. L. |
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The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism / / Paula M.L. Moya |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (223 p.) |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
American fiction - Social aspects |
Race in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : schemas and racial literacy -- Racism is not intellectual : the dialogic potential of multicultural literature -- Not one and the same thing : the ethical relationship of selves to others in Toni Morrison's Sula -- Another way to be : vestigial schemas in Helena Maria Viramontes's "The moths" and Manuel Muñoz's "Zigzagger" -- Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Díaz's "How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie" -- The misprision of mercy : race and responsible reading in Toni Morrison's A mercy -- Conclusion : reading race. |
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In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema to show that our multiple social contexts affect what we perceive and how we feel when we read. Championing and modeling a kind of close reading that attends to how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, Paula M. L. Moya demonstrates the power of works of literature by writers such as Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, and Helena Maria Viramontes to alter perceptions and reshape cultural imaginaries. Insofar as literary fiction is a unique form of engagement with weighty social problems, it matters not only which specific works of literature we read and teach, but also how we read them, and with whom. This is what constitutes the social imperative of literature. |
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