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The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world to examine the interplay between cultural production and conceptualizations of the nation and nationalism.
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Editors' Introduction: Cultural Text and NationSheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney NeedhamPart 1: SubjectivitiesA.
Affect & Memory Studies1. The National Guilt Novel: A Transnational Perspective
Marzena Soko¿owska-Pary¿ 2. Redemptions of Past Futures in Yael Bartana's Work
Mazalit Haim3. Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature
Sheera Talpaz4. Post-Brexit Nation, Anxious Communities, and Affective Politics in Sarah Moss's
SummerwaterWiktoria TunskaB.
Gender, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism5. On the Thoughtlessness of Not Reading: National Allegory and Sexual Violence in A.B. Yehoshua's
The LoverOren Yirmiya6.
Biwi ya Tawaif/Wife or Courtesan: Sites of Female Representation in Bombay Cinema of the "Fifties Moment"
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham7.
Padmaavat and
Manikarma: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema
Rituparna Sengupta8. Heart-to-Heart Conversations After September 11: Nation and National Belonging in Shaila Abdullah's
Saffron Dreams and Alia Yunis's
The Night CounterÖzlem AtarC.
Interrogating Normativity: Queerness and Disability9. Performing Queer Citizenship Across Law and Literature
Namrata Verghese10. "A Country Far Away as Health": Hannah Arendt, Prosthetic Speech, and Political Community
Andrew David KingPart II: TemporalitiesA.
Historical and Historiographic Interventions11. Suspicion, Anxiety, and Revenge: Deconstructing the Zionist Hermeneutics of a National Hebrew Poet
Hannan Hever12. Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Hindi Cinema
Ravi S. Vasudevan13. Nation and the Modern Hero: A Study of Early South Indian Novels
Gayatri Thanu Pillai14. Constituting the Nation: Chile's Constitution and the Reimagination of National Identity
Steven S. VolkB.
Contemporary Flux: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Universalism15. Universalism and Other Nationalisms: Re-Reading Milton After 9/11
Samuel P. Catlin16. The Desti/nation of Sri Lanka: Mapping the Cosmopolitan-Capitalist Framework of Cultural Tourism
Shelby E. Ward17. Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pabón and the Critique of the National in Puerto Rico, 1993-2003.
Sergio Gutiérrez NegrónC. "
National Allegories"
18. Sectarian Gothic: Egyptian Necromantics on the Lebanese Mountain
Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)19. The Nation at a Wobbly Juncture
Rania Elshabassy20. Indo-Trinidadian Navigations of Belonging, Nationhood, and Diasporic Identity
Victoria ChangD.
Utopian Horizons21. Writing Beyond the Nation: Ali Smith's
Seasonal QuartetBurcu Kay¿¿c¿ Akkoyun22. Bacchus in Bucolic Britain: The Textual Unconscious of Sex Education in a Divided United Kingdom
Stuart Innes Molloy23. Aryan Racism and Political Utopianism in Catalan Nationalism
Cesar Guarde-PazPart III: SitesA.
Museums and Other Archives of Material Culture24. Wild Places and Glass Cases: Un/tamed Landscapes, Museum Exhibitions, and the American Identity in the Long Nineteenth
Sofia Lago25.
Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National Subject
Sarah Abdullah26. Imagined Communities of Dress: Early Modern Costume Books and the Perception of National Identities
Emilia Olechnowicz27. Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine Aquarium
Eeva SavolainenB.
The Medical Humanities: Pandemic Spaces28. Healing Movements Across America: Connections of Gender, Place, and Struggle in the Pandemic Cinema of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS
Edward Chamberlain29. Writing the Good Story, Reading the Nation
Carlos RojasC.
Crossing and Renegotiating Borders: Travel, Transnationalism, and Micronatiohood30. The Western and the Literary Construction of Polishness in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Marek Pary¿31. Scripted Borders: Constructing "Nation" through the Performance of Micronationhood
Robert Motum32. (Trans)National Woes: Translating and Reading the Nation Away
Bäak Çandar
About the author
Sheera Talpaz is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is completing her first monograph on the figure and concept of the national poet in Palestinian and modern Hebrew literature, for which she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award.
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently retired as Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College, USA. She has published extensively on anglophone postcolonial literatures, feminist theory and on the work of Shyam Benegal, a filmmaker associated with Parallel or New Indian Cinema.
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The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world to examine the interplay between cultural production and conceptualizations of the nation and nationalism.
