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"

Sommario

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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Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mary N Layoun, Mary N. Layoun
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.12.2001
• EAN: 9780822325451
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2545-1
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 237 mm x 18 mm
• Peso: 386 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature