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
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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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