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Nations, Identities, Cultures

Autor V. Y. Mudimbe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 1997
Investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and the ethnicisation of the political. This book explores various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century. It is aimed at readers engaged in postcolonial and cultural studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822320654
ISBN-10: 0822320657
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 179 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. The contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century as well as the manifestations of these issues in specific regions of the world.

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This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the context of exile. Contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the 19th century, as well as the manifestations of these issues in specific regions of the world.

Cuprins

Introduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1
Pre-Texts and Models
Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7
Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29
Case Studies
Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45
The Current Great Narrative of Québecois Identity / Jocelyn Létourneau 59
Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75
Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95
The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123
Small Differences—Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143
Post-Texts and Systems
Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165
The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181
On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199
Notes on Contributors 221
Index 223