TY - BOOK ID - 145311359 TI - National consciousness and literary cosmopolitics : postcolonial literature in a global moment PY - 2013 SN - 9780814212301 PB - Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University press, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalisme KW - Littérature postcoloniale KW - Dans la littérature. KW - Thèmes, motifs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145311359 AB - National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics: Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment by Weihsin Gui argues that postcolonial literature written within a framework of globalization still takes nationalism seriously rather than dismissing it as obsolete. Authors and texts often regarded as cosmopolitan, diasporic, or migrant actually challenge globalization's tendency to treat nations as absolute and homogenous sociocultural entities. While social scientific theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism as antithetical to transnational economic and cultural flows, National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics contends that postcolonial literature represents nationalism as a form of cosmopolitical engagement with what lies beyond the nation's borders. Postcolonial literature never gave up on anticolonial nationalism but rather revised its meaning, extending the idea of the nation beyond an identity position into an interrogation of globalization and the neocolonial state through political consciousness. ER -