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Narrating Nationalisms

Author : Jinqi Ling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195354867

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This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of post-WWII Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian American literary texts that simultaneously registers their rich specificity and relatedness to works before and after.

Narrating Nationalisms

Author : Jinqi Ling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195111163

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In Narrating Nationalisms, Jinqi Ling brings fresh perspectives to ongoing debates over the nature of Asian American literary production from the 1950s through 1980. He offers provocative interpretations of five formative texts demonstrating how these works contribute to the ongoing dialogue around progressive multicultural projects. Ling's nuanced analysis richly complicates our understanding of these Asian American classics and provides a sound critical basis for evaluating subsequent Asian American literary writings. Narrating Nationalisms synthesizes the literary discourse and critical debates within the field in a crucial period of post - World War II Asian American literary history, and specifies the components of "Asian American cultural nationalism" in ways that have not yet been attempted. This book will be compelling reading for those working in American literature, critical theory, cultural history, and ethnic studies.

Narrating the Nation

Author : Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845454243

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Narrating the Nation by Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock Pdf

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak

Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438487786

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The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak by Partha Chatterjee Pdf

Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak presents a completely new way of telling the history of Indian nationalism. Severely criticizing the doctrines of both Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism, it examines the ongoing debates over Indian civilization and recounts in detail how the present borders of India were defined by British colonial policy, the partition of 1947, and the integration of the princely states and the French and Portuguese territories. The emphasis is not so much on the state machinery inherited from colonial times but on the moral foundation of a new republic based on the solidarity of different but equal formations of the people. After a trenchant critique of the present-day conflicts over religion, caste, class, gender, language, and region in India, the book proposes a new politics of revitalized federalism. Intended for a general readership, and eschewing academic jargon, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the future of India.

Narrating Humanity

Author : Cynthia Franklin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781531503741

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In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new analytical language centered on “narrative humanity,” “narrated humanity,” and “grounded narrative humanity” and foregrounds concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. While stories of “narrative humanity” propagate the status quo, Franklin argues, those of “narrated humanity” and “grounded narrative humanity” are ones that articulate ways of being human necessary for not only surviving but also thriving during a time of accelerating crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate change. Through chapters focused on Hurricane Katrina; Black Lives Matter; the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; and the Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna a Wākea, Franklin reveals how life writing can be mobilized to do more than perpetuate dominant forms of dehumanization that underwrite violence. She contends that life narratives can help materialize ways of being human inspired by these contemporary political movements that are based on queer kinship, inter/national solidarity, abolitionist care, and decolonial connectivity among humans, more-than-humans, land, and waters. Engaging writers, artists, and activists who inspire radical forms of relationality, she comes to write side-by-side with them in her own acts of narrated humanity by refusing the boundaries between autobiography, community-based activism, and literary and cultural criticism.

Racial Asymmetries

Author : Stephen Hong Sohn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479800551

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Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts.a Racial Asymmetries aspecifically examines the importance of first person narration in Asian American fiction published in the postrace era, focusing on those cultural productions in which the authorOCOs ethnoracial makeup does not directly overlap with that of the storytelling perspective. a Through rigorous analysis of novels and short fiction, such as Sesshu FosterOCOsa Atomik Aztex, Sabina MurrayOCOsa A CarnivoreOCOs Inquiry aand Sigrid NunezOCOsa The Last of Her Kind, Sohn reveals how the construction of narrative perspective allows the Asian American writer a flexible aesthetic canvas upon which to engage issues of oppression and inequity, power and subjectivity, and the complicated construction of racial identity. Speaking to concerns running through postcolonial studies and American literature at large, a Racial Asymmetries aemploys an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the unbounded nature of fictional worlds. a Stephen Hong Sohn ais Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the co-editor ofa Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits."

Narrated Empires

Author : Johanna Chovanec,Olof Heilo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030551995

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Narrated Empires by Johanna Chovanec,Olof Heilo Pdf

This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During this period, both empires struggled against a rising tide of nationalism to legitimise their own diversity of ethnicities, languages and religions. Contributors scrutinise the various narratives of identity that they developed, supported, encouraged or unwittingly created and left behind for posterity as they tried to keep up with the changing political realities of modernity. Beyond simplified notions of enforced harmony or dynamic dissonance, this book aims at a more polyphonic analysis of the various voices of Habsburg and Ottoman multinationalism: from the imperial centres and in the closest proximity to sovereigns, to provinces and minorities, among intellectuals and state servants, through novels and newspapers. Combining insights from history, literary studies and political sciences, it further explores the lasting legacy of the empires in post-imperial narratives of loss, nostalgia, hope and redemption. It shows why the two dynasties keep haunting the twenty-first century with fears and promises of conflict, coexistence, and reborn greatness.

Race and Resistance

Author : Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198033583

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Race and Resistance by Viet Thanh Nguyen Pdf

In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives

Author : Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty,Ty Eleanor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802086047

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The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives by Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty,Ty Eleanor Pdf

Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies how authors and filmmakers meet the gaze of the dominant culture and respond to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies. Ty does not survey Asian Canadian and Asian America literature, but presents readings of selected texts that actively engage with issues of otherness, visibility, and identification. Many of them, she says, are in the process of working out how larger issues of representation, power, and history affect Asian North American subjectivity. Parts of the work have been published previously.

Recovered Legacies

Author : Keith Lawrence,Floyd Cheung
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781592131204

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Recovered Legacies by Keith Lawrence,Floyd Cheung Pdf

Rediscovering the writings of early Asian America.

The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature

Author : Rachel Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317698418

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The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature by Rachel Lee Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the volume: Introduces "keywords" connecting the theories, themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature Addresses historical periods, geographies and literary identities Looks at different genre, form and interdisciplinarity With 41 essays from scholars in the field this collection is a comprehensive guide to a significant area of literary study for students and teachers of Ethnic American, Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander Literature. Contributors: Christine Bacareza Balance, Victor Bascara, Leslie Bow, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Tina Chen, Anne Anlin Cheng, Mark Chiang, Patricia P. Chu, Robert Diaz, Pin-chia Feng, Tara Fickle, Donald Goellnicht, Helena Grice, Eric Hayot, Tamara C. Ho, Hsuan L. Hsu, Mark C. Jerng, Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Daniel Y. Kim, Jodi Kim, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Rachel C. Lee, Jinqi Ling, Colleen Lye, Sean Metzger, Susette Min, Susan Y. Najita, Viet Thanh Nguyen, erin Khuê Ninh, Eve Oishi, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Steven Salaita, Shu-mei Shi, Rajini Srikanth, Brian Kim Stefans, Erin Suzuki, Theresa Tensuan, Cynthia Tolentino, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Eleanor Ty, Traise Yamamoto, Timothy Yu.

Nation and Narration

Author : Homi K. Bhabha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136769306

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Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha Pdf

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 3854 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781438140698

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Encyclopedia of the American Novel by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

The Encyclopedia of the Novel

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118779071

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The Encyclopedia of the Novel by Anonim Pdf

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement

Author : R. Lieberman,C. Lang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230620742

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Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement by R. Lieberman,C. Lang Pdf

This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues.