Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms (Transformations) - Hardcover

Book 19 of 27: Transformations

Gunew, Sneja

 
9780415284820: Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms (Transformations)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415284821 ISBN 13: 9780415284820
Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigeneity, grounding her discussion in a variety of national settings and a variety of literary, autobiographical and theoretical texts. Using examples from marginal sites - the "settler societies" of Australia and Canada - to cast light on the globally dominant discourses of the US and the UK, Gunew analyses the political ambiguities and the pitfalls involved in a discourse of multiculturalism haunted by the opposing spectres of anarchy and assimilation.

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About the Author

Sneja Gunew is Director of the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415284821
ISBN 13 
9780415284820
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
180

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