Nationalism and post-colonial identity : culture and ideology in India and Egypt / / Anshuman A. Mondal
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Mondal Anshuman A (Anshuman Ahmed), <1972-, >
|
| Titolo: |
Nationalism and post-colonial identity : culture and ideology in India and Egypt / / Anshuman A. Mondal
|
| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.54/0954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nationalism - India |
| Nationalism - Egypt | |
| Soggetto geografico: | India Politics and government |
| India Civilization | |
| Egypt Politics and government | |
| Egypt Civilization | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-282) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Nationalism as cultural politics; The prehistory of Gandhian nationalism; A tragedy of idealism: utopianism and the imagined community of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj; The making and unmaking of Gandhian ideology: Raja Rao's Kanthapura; An anatomy of Egyptian secular-liberal nationalism; Tawfiq al-Hakim and the dark side of Egyptian secular-liberal nationalist discourse; Naguib Mahfouz, national allegory and neopatriarchy: the Cairo Trilogy; Reflections on nationalism, culture and ideology in India and Egypt; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nati |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nationalism and post-colonial identity |
| ISBN: | 1-280-02441-0 |
| 1-134-49417-3 | |
| 0-203-49898-4 | |
| 0-415-60015-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451043903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |