Text and nation : cross-disciplinary essays on cultural and national identities
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Text and nation : cross-disciplinary essays on cultural and national identities
（The Quiason lecture series）
Camden House, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
- among them African/American studies, art history, comparative literature, linguistics, and philosophy - each essay explores the relationship between national identity and textual genres, such as literature, music, the visual arts and language; there is a particular emphasis on the need to understand how the end of the Cold War has affected interpretations of national and cultural identities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Nation and language: perfecting the perfect - improving the beloved language, Joshua A. Fishman
- colonial language policies in Indonesia and the Philippines - a contrast in intended aims and unintended outcomes, Benedict Anderson. Part 2 Nation, colonial and post-colonial identities: from the "civilizing mission" to "humanitarian interventionism" - post-modernism, writing and human rights, Barbara Harlow
- survival and invention - indigeneity in the Caribbean, Peter Hulme. Part 3 Mythologies of nation: imperial marches and mouse singers - nationalist mythology in Central European modernity, Katie Trumpener
- sacred text, sacred nation, Pierre Taminiaux
- to the unknown painter - Anselm Kiefer and the inscription of identity, Lisa Saltzman. Part 4 Nation and internationalism: bi-languaging love - national identifications and cultures of scholarship in a trans-national world, Walter D. Mignolo
- texts of childhood in inter-nationalizing Japan, Norma Field. Part 5 Nationalism and cosmopolitanism: against national culture, Kwame Anthony Appiah
- unsatisfied - notes on vernacular cosmopolitanism, Homi K. Bhabha.
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