Worlds within : national narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing / / Vilashini Cooppan
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| Autore: |
Cooppan Vilashini
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| Titolo: |
Worlds within : national narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing / / Vilashini Cooppan
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.933581 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nationalism and literature - History - 20th century |
| Postcolonialism in literature | |
| Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Worlds within |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-7250-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828346203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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