The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation

Editors' Introduction: Cultural Text and Nation

Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Part 1: Subjectivities

A. Affect & Memory Studies

1. The National Guilt Novel: A Transnational Perspective

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz

2. Redemptions of Past Futures in Yael Bartana's Work

Mazalit Haim

3. Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature

Sheera Talpaz

4. Post-Brexit Nation, Anxious Communities, and Affective Politics in Sarah Moss's Summerwater

Wiktoria Tunska

B. Gender, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism

5. On the Thoughtlessness of Not Reading: National Allegory and Sexual Violence in A.B. Yehoshua's The Lover

Oren Yirmiya

6. Biwi ya Tawaif/Wife or Courtesan: Sites of Female Representation in Bombay Cinema of the "Fifties Moment"

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

7. Padmaavat and Manikarma: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema

Rituparna Sengupta

8. Heart-to-Heart Conversations After September 11: Nation and National Belonging in Shaila Abdullah's Saffron Dreams and Alia Yunis's The Night Counter

OEzlem Atar

C. Interrogating Normativity: Queerness and Disability

9. Performing Queer Citizenship Across Law and Literature

Namrata Verghese

10. "A Country Far Away as Health": Hannah Arendt, Prosthetic Speech, and Political Community

Andrew David King

Part II: Temporalities

A. Historical and Historiographic Interventions

11. Suspicion, Anxiety, and Revenge: Deconstructing the Zionist Hermeneutics of a National Hebrew Poet

Hannan Hever

12. Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Hindi Cinema

Ravi S. Vasudevan

13. Nation and the Modern Hero: A Study of Early South Indian Novels

Gayatri Thanu Pillai

14. Constituting the Nation: Chile's Constitution and the Reimagination of National Identity

Steven S. Volk

B. Contemporary Flux: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Universalism

15. Universalism and Other Nationalisms: Re-Reading Milton After 9/11

Samuel P. Catlin

16. The Desti/nation of Sri Lanka: Mapping the Cosmopolitan-Capitalist Framework of Cultural Tourism

Shelby E. Ward

17. Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pabon and the Critique of the National in Puerto Rico, 1993-2003.

Sergio Gutierrez Negron

C. "National Allegories"

18. Sectarian Gothic: Egyptian Necromantics on the Lebanese Mountain

Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)

19. The Nation at a Wobbly Juncture

Rania Elshabassy

20. Indo-Trinidadian Navigations of Belonging, Nationhood, and Diasporic Identity

Victoria Chang

D. Utopian Horizons

21. Writing Beyond the Nation: Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet

Burcu Kayisci Akkoyun

22. Bacchus in Bucolic Britain: The Textual Unconscious of Sex Education in a Divided United Kingdom

Stuart Innes Molloy

23. Aryan Racism and Political Utopianism in Catalan Nationalism

Cesar Guarde-Paz

Part III: Sites

A. Museums and Other Archives of Material Culture

24. Wild Places and Glass Cases: Un/tamed Landscapes, Museum Exhibitions, and the American Identity in the Long Nineteenth

Sofia Lago

25. Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National Subject

Sarah Abdullah

26. Imagined Communities of Dress: Early Modern Costume Books and the Perception of National Identities

Emilia Olechnowicz

27. Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine Aquarium

Eeva Savolainen

B. The Medical Humanities: Pandemic Spaces

28. Healing Movements Across America: Connections of Gender, Place, and Struggle in the Pandemic Cinema of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS

Edward Chamberlain

29. Writing the Good Story, Reading the Nation

Carlos Rojas

C. Crossing and Renegotiating Borders: Travel, Transnationalism, and Micronatiohood

30. The Western and the Literary Construction of Polishness in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Marek Paryz

31. Scripted Borders: Constructing "Nation" through the Performance of Micronationhood

Robert Motum

32. (Trans)National Woes: Translating and Reading the Nation Away

Basak Candar