Worlds within
Subtitle: national narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing
By: Vilashini Cooppan.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780804754903
Subjects: Nationalism and literature -- History -- 20th century; Postcolonialism in literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: This book tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century. While globalization has sometimes been understood as superseding national borders, the book distances itself from before-and-after sequences in order to trace the intersection between national and global politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : inner territories; title: National imaginaries, global flows, and uncanny repetitions : Conrad's Heart of darkness and the postcolonial novel; title: The soul of nationhood : W.E.B. Du Bois and the psychic politics of place; title: Ghostly forms : race, nation, and genre in Frantz Fanon; title: My nation, my object : Severo Sarduy's fantasmatic Cuba; title: Postscript : remapping nationalism.