Thresholds of Western Culture - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826460011 ISBN 13 : 9780826460011

Editeur : The Athlone Press, 2003

Synopsis

Thresholds of Western Culture explores identity, postcoloniality and transnationalism--three closely related issues which redefine contemporary cultural identity.

The book opens with an analysis of subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism in the West. The situation in Africa is then explored which, while recalling modernity's dark side, highlights the intricacy of postcolonial identity. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe presents a separate case of neglected postcoloniality which emphasizes how ethnocentrism and cultural tensions have exposed the fragility of transnationalism. The book concludes with an examination of East Asia, a region which offers transnational options potentially much more fruitful than Balkanization.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Burt Foster, Jr., is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the past editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the journal of the International Comparative Literature Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Athlone Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826460011
• ISBN 13: 9780826460011
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: Burt Foster John, Froman Wayne
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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