The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. July 2026
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456 pages
978-1-032-43561-9 (ISBN)
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The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world who engage fresh critical lenses, from affect studies to the medical humanities, and re-energize established frameworks to examine the interplay between cultural production and conceptualizations of the nation and nationalism. The scholarship in this volume takes as its objects of analysis various forms of aesthetic and cultural production, from film and literature to museums and costume books, enriching the conversation that has often siloed these forms.
Geared toward scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates across the humanities and social sciences, this timely, interdisciplinary collection is issued at a critical juncture in the transformation of the nation and the global resurgence of regressive and populist nationalist movements. Both offering new insights reorienting our understanding of canonical materials and bringing noncanonical works to light, this volume challenges long-held assumptions about the nation while establishing its continued significance and future possibilities.
Geared toward scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates across the humanities and social sciences, this timely, interdisciplinary collection is issued at a critical juncture in the transformation of the nation and the global resurgence of regressive and populist nationalist movements. Both offering new insights reorienting our understanding of canonical materials and bringing noncanonical works to light, this volume challenges long-held assumptions about the nation while establishing its continued significance and future possibilities.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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20 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 20 s/w Abbildungen
20 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
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978-1-032-43561-9 (9781032435619)
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Sheera Talpaz is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is completing her first monograph on the figure and concept of the national poet in Palestinian and modern Hebrew literature, for which she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award.
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently retired as Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College, USA. She has published extensively on anglophone postcolonial literatures, feminist theory and on the work of Shyam Benegal, a filmmaker associated with Parallel or New Indian Cinema.
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently retired as Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College, USA. She has published extensively on anglophone postcolonial literatures, feminist theory and on the work of Shyam Benegal, a filmmaker associated with Parallel or New Indian Cinema.
Content
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
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