Wedded to the Land?
Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2001
240 pages
978-0-8223-8048-1 (ISBN)
Description
The gendered narratives of nationalism explored through Greek, Cypriot, and Palestinian examples, particularly in regard to questions of borders, crisis, and displacement.
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Mary N. Layoun is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Travels of a Genre: Ideology and the Modern Novel.
Content
Introduction: Culturing the Nation
1. National Homogeneity and Population Exchanges: Who Belongs Where?-
Greece 1922
2. The Gendered Purity of the Nation: Sovereignty and Its Violation, or, Rape by Any Other Name-Cyprus, 1974
3. Between Here and There: National Community from the Inside Out and the Outside In-Palestine, 1982
4. Thinking Citizens Again: Culture, Gender, and the Silences of the (Never Quite) Nation-State
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. National Homogeneity and Population Exchanges: Who Belongs Where?-
Greece 1922
2. The Gendered Purity of the Nation: Sovereignty and Its Violation, or, Rape by Any Other Name-Cyprus, 1974
3. Between Here and There: National Community from the Inside Out and the Outside In-Palestine, 1982
4. Thinking Citizens Again: Culture, Gender, and the Silences of the (Never Quite) Nation-State
Notes
Bibliography
Index
