Worlds within : national narratives and global connections in postcolonial writing / Vilashini Cooppan.

Author/creator Cooppan, Vilashini
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxxiii, 354 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Nationalism and literature--History. --20th century.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesCultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present. ^A403800
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008049942
ISBN9780804754903 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080475490X (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40017311721