Global Perspectives on Nationalism: Political and Literary Discourses

ISBN-13: 9781032168128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str.

Biswas, Debajyoti

Opis

Global Perspectives on Nationalism takes an interdisciplinary approach informed by recent theorisations of nationalism to examine perennial questions on the topic.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Nationalism  Section I: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration  2. "Liberal Nationalism": A Theoretical Oxymoron or an Empirical Way Forward?  3. Nation as War Narration: The Revolutionary Epics and its Ethnicity  4. A Century After the Birth of Greater Lebanon (1920–2020): A Brief Review  Section II: Religion, Identity, and Heritage  5. Ethnic Identities and the ‘Contested’ Idea of a Nepal State  6. The Nations and Its Discontents: The Structural Face of Turkish Nationalism  7. Constellation, Not Sequencing Carries the Truth: Olga Tokarczuk’s Nomadic Flight from Homogenous National Identity  Section III: Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism  8. Bilingualism in Bangladeshi Education and the Question of National Identity  9. Deconstructing Assamese Nationalism Vis-à-vis Indian Nationalism  10. Nationalism and Invention of Tradition in Argentinian Folk Narrative Archives: From the 1921 Folk Survey to the Collections of the 21st Century  Section IV: Music, Lyricism, and Poetics  11. Scotland Hymns for His Identity: The National Anthem in Progress  12. Of Poetry and Nationalism: Articulating Charles Bernstein’s Poetics of the Americas and the Democratic Space of Poetry  13. Nationhood and Sexual Dissidence: From Walt Whitman’s Adhesive Camerados to Larry Kramer’s De-kiked Faggots  14. Racial Identity and the American Nation in Langston Hughes’ Short Story "Home"  Section V: Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives  15. "Dressed in Native Trees": Plants as Figures of Anti-National Resistance in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry  16. Local Wisdom and Sustainable Praxis in the Anthropocene: The Green Nationalism of the Sedulur Sikep Community of Central Java, Indonesia  17. China’s Ecological Civilisation: A National Narrative with Global Ambitions  18. Ethnonationalism and Econationalism in the Age of Carbon Democracy: Ruud Elmendorp’s Documentary Film Ken Saro Wiwa: All For My People  19. The Splintered Roots of ‘Heimat’: On the ‘German’ Oak’s Arboreal Memory