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 InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description1 online resource (248 pages).
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SeriesTransoceanic studies
Transoceanic studies. ^A1179243
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013017115
ISBN9780814271100
ISBN0814271103