National consciousness and literary cosmopolitics [electronic resource] : postcolonial literature in a global moment / Weihsin Gui.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN:- 9780814271100
- 0814271103
- 809/.93358 23
- PN56.N19 G85 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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