This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. The contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century as well as the manifestations of these issues in specific regions of the world.
This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. The contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century as well as the manifestations of these issues in specific regions of the world.
V. Y. Mudimbe is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Classics at Stanford University. He is also Distinguished Research Professor in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1 Pre-Texts and Models Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7 Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29 Case Studies Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45 The Current Great Narrative of Québecois Identity / Jocelyn Létourneau 59 Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75 Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95 The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123 Small Differences—Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143 Post-Texts and Systems Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165 The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181 On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199 Notes on Contributors 221 Index 223
Introduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1 Pre-Texts and Models Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7 Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29 Case Studies Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45 The Current Great Narrative of Québecois Identity / Jocelyn Létourneau 59 Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75 Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95 The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123 Small Differences—Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143 Post-Texts and Systems Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165 The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181 On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199 Notes on Contributors 221 Index 223
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