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Zones of Instability
Imre Szeman
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Description for Zones of Instability
Hardback. He finds that the "nationcan be read as that space in which literature is thought to be able to conjoin two things that history has separated-the writer and the people. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBC; 1KJ; 1QDB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In describing unstable social and political cultures, such "third-world intellectuals" often find themselves torn between the competing literary requirements of the "local" culture of the colony and the cosmopolitan, "world" culture introduced by Western civilization. In Zones of Instability, Imre Szeman examines the complex relationship between literature and politics by exploring the production of nationalist literature in the former British empire. Taking as his case studies the regions of the British ... Read more
Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In describing unstable social and political cultures, such "third-world intellectuals" often find themselves torn between the competing literary requirements of the "local" culture of the colony and the cosmopolitan, "world" culture introduced by Western civilization. In Zones of Instability, Imre Szeman examines the complex relationship between literature and politics by exploring the production of nationalist literature in the former British empire. Taking as his case studies the regions of the British ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801868030
SKU
V9780801868030
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About Imre Szeman
Imre Szeman is an associate professor of English at McMaster University.
Reviews for Zones of Instability
Szeman speaks softly (and subtly), but as a leading-edge theorist of postcolonial literature and cultural studies he has earned the intellectual authority that underlies the present bold project. Choice 2004 Offers an interesting and valuable argument.
Chelva Kanaganayakam University of Toronto Quarterly 2007
Chelva Kanaganayakam University of Toronto Quarterly 2007