Narratives of Nostalgia, Gender and Nationalism

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

Using texts ranging from the writings of Schlegel to the speeches of the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day, these essays explore the ways in which nostalgia brokers the relations between the master narratives of gender and the master narratives of nationalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:293 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Upplaga:97001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349136001

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Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Introduction - The Future of Nostalgia in Friedrich Schlegel's Gender Theory: Casting German Aesthetics Beyond Ancient Greece and Modern Europe; J.Steinwand - Writing Historically, Speaking Nostalgically: The Competing Languages of Nation in Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor; J.Sorensen - From Nation of Virtue to Virtual Nation: Washington Irving and American Nationalism; W.Sondey - The Birthing of the American Flag and the Invention of an American Founding Mother in the Image of Betsy Ross; J.Menezes - Mother India Through the Ages: the Dilemma of Conflicting Subjectivities; S.Sawhney - Willa Cather, Origin, and American Modernism; J.N.Swift - Scripting Woman into the Discourse of Nostalgia: Gender and the Nation State; H.Chari - Female Sacrifice: Gender and Nostalgic Nationalism in Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; L.Stec - Where Are the Missing Contents?: Post-Modernism, Gender, and the Canon; E.G.Friedman - Remembering D-Day: A Case History in Nostalgia; J.Pickering - Index