Wedded to the Land? - Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis

"An insightful analysis of a truly impressive array of literary, cinematic, archival, and ethnographic materials."--Ted Swedenburg, coeditor of "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity"

List of contents

Introduction: Culturing the Nation

1. National Homogeneity and Population Exchanges: Who Belongs Where?—
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2. The Gendered Purity of the Nation: Sovereignty and Its Violation, or, Rape by Any Other Name—Cyprus, 1974

3. Between Here and There: National Community from the Inside Out and the Outside In—Palestine, 1982

4. Thinking Citizens Again: Culture, Gender, and the Silences of the (Never Quite) Nation-State
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Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Mary N. Layoun is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Travels of a Genre: Ideology and the Modern Novel.

Summary

Offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. This book uses various historical incidents as a means of highlighting a recurring trope within constructs of nationalism.

Product details

• Authors: Layoun, Mary N Layoun, Mary N. Layoun, Mary N. Layoun
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2001
• EAN: 9780822325079
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2507-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 72 mm x 308 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Osteuropa, Palästina, Griechenland, Zypern, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte