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National Identities in France

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Description for National Identities in France Hardback. Editor(s): Sudlow, Brian. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.

National Identities in France explores nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides. The popular assumption that automatically regards nationalism as a largely right-wing concern, occludes the many ways in which nationalism and national identities have contributed to social imagination and political or literary discourses across the right-left spectrum.

The critical grounds on which such reflections are undertaken are rich and varied. The idea of invented traditions has long suggested how such a thing as the modernnation-state could vest itself in the creatively assembled robes of a dim ... Read more

Each chapter asks important questions concerning nationalism and national identities in relation to France. With nationalism, apparently stable distinctions collapse under the pressure of French national identity. The signs are that French national identities and nationalisms are in a constant state of reinvention and negotiation, of periodic crisis and constant rebirth. If political classes attempt to manipulate national identity for some larger project, they have no monopoly on the social imaginary. National mobilization is a multiple and polysemic process, not a univocal and rigid ideology.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
189
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781412842884
SKU
V9781412842884
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99-1

About Brian Sudlow
Brian Sudlow is currently a lecturer in French with Translation Studies at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Previously, he was a French studies admissions tutor and coordinator of the French Studies Early Career Research Group at the University of Reading (United Kingdom). In addition to his numerous conference lectures, he is the author of the forthcoming Catholic Literature and Secularisation in ... Read more

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