Changing Worlds Changing Nations : The Concept of Nation in the Transnational Era

edited by Joel Kuortti and Om Prakash Dwivedi

ISBN 10: 8131605191 / ISBN 13: 9788131605196

Published by Rawat Publications, 2012

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Contents: Introduction. 1. Postcolonial somaticism in Kiran Desai's the inheritance of loss/Yanoula Athanassakis. 2. Partition private lives and co-wives: women modernity and nation in Shauna Singh Baldwin's what the body remembers and Manju Kapur's difficult daughters/Christine Vogt William. 3. The cane is singing : South African Indian literature on indenture/Devarakshanam Betty Govinden. 4. Problems of representation in Raja Rao's the great Indian way: a life of Mahatma Gandhi/Letizia Alterno. 5. Memory and the transformation of identity in Meena Alexander's Fault lines/Nishi Pulugurtha. 6. Nation as the persistent centre of meaning: Dambudzo Marechera and the Zimbabwe crisis/Anna Leena Toivanen. 7. The ethics of representation in the glass palace by Amitav Ghosh/Tuomas Huttunen. 8. Transnational/transcultural subjectivities and chronotopes in diasporic literature/Madina Tlostanova. 9. Globalizing European peripheries: the transnational and the translocal in Monica Ali's Alentejo blue/Jopi Nyman. 10. Teaching a transcultural/transgeneric: classic Hanif Kureishis my beautiful Laundrette/Laurenz Volkmann. 11. Nations of the soul and women's poetic activism/Laksmisree Banerjee. 12. Changing worlds/changing words: the language of experiment in Salman Rushdie's Midnight children/Om Prakash Dwivedi. 13. Salman Rushdie's transnational layers/Joel Kuortti. Index. The title of the book Changing Worlds, Changing Nations: The Concept of Nation in the Transnational Era, underlines the transforming status of the discourse on nationalism and transnationalism. The book focuses on how the realities and identities of people are influenced by the changes taking place in the varying dimensions of nation-states. The term transnationalism sounds simplistic yet it is not so explicit in nature and is apparently enveloped in myriad confounding applications. Transnationalism, as it is largely understood, is a concept that disrupts and scatters the idea of centrality and periphery. It may be properly conceived as a kind of relationship between nation states, a crossing of national borders a cultural/political interplay between different national cultures or a mode of mobility of trans/national subjects. To be more precise transnationalism means a form of multi-nationalism something that shares cultural connections with more than one nation. Changing Worlds Changing Nations consists of thirteen articles that consider the feasibility of nation states in a transnational era and examine the role of language and culture in seeking a new identity for them. The book focuses on the Indian context as a case study of the thematics but it extends necessarily this nationalistic framework to reflect on other, wider contexts. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 109981

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Title: Changing Worlds Changing Nations : The ...

Publisher: Rawat Publications

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

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The title of this book - Changing Worlds, Changing Nations - underlines the transforming status of the discourse on nationalism and transnationalism. The book focuses on how the realities and identities of people are influenced by the changes taking place in the various dimensions of nation-states. The term 'transnationalism' sounds simplistic, yet it is not so explicit in nature and is apparently enveloped in a myriad of confounding applications. Transnationalism, as it is largely understood, is a concept that disrupts and scatters the idea of centrality and periphery. It may be properly conceived as: a kind of relationship between nation-states, a crossing of national borders, a cultural/political interplay between different national cultures, or a mode of mobility of trans/national subjects. To be more precise, transnationalism means a form of multi-nationalism; something that shares cultural connections with more than one nation. Changing Worlds, Changing Nations consists of 13 contributions that consider the feasibility of nation-states in a transnational era and examine the role of language and culture in seeking a new identity. The book focuses on the Indian context as a case study of the thematic, but it extends this nationalistic framework to reflect on other, wider contexts. The hope is that the book as a whole, and the individual articles on their own, will spark new discussions and analyses of literary works in view of transnationalism. There is an ethical call that needs to be addressed in order to maintain the relevance of discussions of post-colonial and transnational issues.