| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; THE UNDERMINING OF A WEST BRITON; IMAGINATIVE FICTION, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND THE TRAUMAS OF ARMED CONFLICT; SELVES AND CORNERS; EPIC IMAGININGS FROM THE 'CELTIC FRINGE' OF BRITAIN; 'LUCKY POET' OR 'ETERNAL MAN'; HERBERT AND SCOTLAND; NATIONAL AND SOCIAL WARFARE IN ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY; THE IDENTITY OF THE MODERN(IST) SELF; SALVESTRO'S DESTINATION; NOTES TO PART I; PART II; GEORGE ELIOT'S DANIEL DERONDA; TROP VIEUX POUR SERVICE?; CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN COSMOPOLITANLONDON |
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NATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE NOVELS OF CHINUA ACHEBENOTES TO PART II; PART III; CANADIAN LITERARY IDENTITY REVISITED; UNMASKING NATIONALISM; FRAMING AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURALIDENTITY; AFRICA AND AMERICA IN AUGUST WILSON'S DRAMA; THE CAJUNS IDENTITY IN TIM GAUTREAUX'S SHORT STORIES; NARRATING THE NATION IN NAVAJO POETRY AND STORYTELLING; E PLURIBUS UNUM; NOTES TO PART III; CONTRIBUTORS |
| Summary |
This book contains a multicultural and multifaceted study of ideologies and conflicts related to the complex realities and fictions of Nation and Identity represented in contemporary literature written in English. The history and present time of the United Kingdom, the British Empire and North America provide vast fields of research which have been explored by our selection of authors. Their interests range from the moral and personal consequences of modern nationalist conflicts to the memories of old racial confrontations on the British soil. Readers will find analyses and reflections on the individual's pursuit of identity in a challenging environment that covers more than two centuries of mainly Western civilization and abound in national dilemmas, social concerns, authoritarian legacies, and problematic postcolonial hybridizations. Short stories, novels, plays and poems by Irish, American, English, Nigerian, and Scottish writers will enable readers to consider the diverse approaches, propositions and debates the issues raised by Nation and Identity are being analyzed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism and literature -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature -- Congresses
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
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Literature, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1847184529 |
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9781847184528 |
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9781443808491 |
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1443808490 |
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