national narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing /
First Statement of Responsibility
Vilashini Cooppan
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Stanford, Calif. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxiii, 354 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Cultural memory in the present
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction : inner territories -- National imaginaries, global flows, and uncanny repetitions : Conrad's Heart of darkness and the postcolonial novel -- The soul of nationhood : W.E.B. Du Bois and the psychic politics of place -- Ghostly forms : race, nation, and genre in Frantz Fanon -- New nations, new novels -- My nation, my object : Severo Sarduy's fantasmatic Cuba -- Postscript : remapping the nation
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Nationalism and literature-- History-- 20th century