National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics : Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment / Weihsin Gui.
| Author/creator | Gui, Weihsin, 1978- |
| Other author | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (248 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
| Subjects |
| Series | Transoceanic studies Transoceanic studies. ^A1179243 Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Introduction : constellations, critical nationality, and literary cosmopolitics -- Articulating Adorno with postcolonial critique : Fanon, Said, Spivak -- "More English than English" : Kazuo Ishiguro's negation of national nostalgia -- "The possibilities of the new country we are making" : transnational fragments and national consciousness in Derek Walcott's writing -- "Not monological but multilogical" : gender, hybridity, and national narratives in Shirley Geok-Lin Lim's writing -- Ethnographic tactics and the cosmopolitical aesthetic in contemporary Malaysian fiction -- Conclusion : nation, narration, negation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013017115 |
| ISBN | 9780814271100 |
| ISBN | 0814271103 |