Multicultural States

Rethinking Difference and Identity
Herausgeber: Bennett, David

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Produktbeschreibung

"Multicultural States" combines discussions of the principles of cultural pluralism, nationalism, and minority identities with informative studies of specific local histories and political conflicts in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Ireland and Britain to identify common problems in the postcolonial era. The contributors discuss a range of issues from political versus cultural constructions of nationhood in the USA and Australia to ethnic nationalism in post-apartheid South Africa and multicultural law and education in Canada and New Zealand. Contributors: Ien Ang, David Atwell, Homi Bhabha, Abena P. A. Busia, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Terry Eagleton, John Frow, Henry Giroux, Ihab Hassan, Smaro Kamboureli, Maria Koundoura, Beryl Langer, Anne Maxwell, Meaghan Morris, Susan Mathieson, Jon Stratton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415121583
• ISBN-10: 0415121582
• Artikelnr.: 22434398

Autorenporträt

David Bennett teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, David Bennett
Part 1 The Limits of Pluralism
Chapter 2 Culture's in Between, Homi K. Bhabha
Chapter 3 Liberalism and Minority Culture, David Bennett, Homi K. Bhabha
Chapter 4 Five Types of Identity and Difference, Terry Eagleton
Chapter 5 Economies of Value, John Frow
Chapter 6 Multiculturalism or Multinationalism?, Maria Koundoura
Part 2 Multiculturalism and the Nation
Chapter 7 Modernity and Ethnicity in India, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chapter 8 Between Ethnicity and Nationhood, Susan Mathieson, David Attwell
Chapter 9 Postcolonialism, Terry Eagleton
Chapter 10 Multicultural Imagined Communities, Jon Stratton, Ien Ang
Chapter 11 Globalisation and The Myth Of Ethnic Community, Beryl Langer
Chapter 12 The Politics of National Identity and the Pedagogy of Multiculturalism in the USA, Henry A. Giroux
Chapter 13 Ethnicity and Education, Anne Maxwell
Chapter 14 The Technology of Ethnicity, Smaro Kamboureli
Part 3 Positionings
Chapter 15 Lunching for the Republic, Meaghan Morris
Chapter 16 Riding Multiculturalism, Gargi Bhattacharyya
Chapter 17 Re, Abena P. A. Busia
Chapter 18 Counter Points, Ihab Hassan