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Vilashini Cooppan - Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing - 9780804754903 - V9780804754903
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Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing

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Description for Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing Hardback. 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. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 617.

Worlds Within tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century. While globalization has sometimes been understood to supersede national borders, this book distances itself from before-and-after sequences in order to trace the intersection between national and global politics.

Drawing from psychoanalytic and deconstructive accounts of identity, difference, and desire, Worlds Within explores the making and unmaking of ideas of nation, globe, race, and gender in the late imperialism of Joseph Conrad, the anticolonial nationalism and nascent Third-Worldism of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, and the decolonizing nationalisms and postcolonial cosmopolitanisms of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804754903
SKU
V9780804754903
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About Vilashini Cooppan
Vilashini Cooppan is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews for Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing
"Vilashini Cooppan's Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing offers a timely and expansive study of the construct of the nation that engages theoretical debates at the heart of postcolonial studies and comparative literature . . . Worlds Within offers a compelling investigation of how a series of highly influential theorists and writers have imagined the nation ... Read more

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