Re-thinking Europe: Literature and (trans)national IdentityNele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant, Pieter Vermeulen Rodopi, 2008 - 268 Seiten Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity. |
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... course, the main issue. Vermeylen's main concern was the freedom of the individual, and in his Stirnerian view, this individual freedom was absolute. No philosophy or belief system, let alone an institution such as the state, could ...
... course, the main issue. Vermeylen's main concern was the freedom of the individual, and in his Stirnerian view, this individual freedom was absolute. No philosophy or belief system, let alone an institution such as the state, could ...
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... course part of the Germanic axis, but had discredited itself by starting a war against the (more or less) Dutch-speaking Boers in South Africa. In Vermeylen's view, these traditional alliances and hostilities were part of a rather ...
... course part of the Germanic axis, but had discredited itself by starting a war against the (more or less) Dutch-speaking Boers in South Africa. In Vermeylen's view, these traditional alliances and hostilities were part of a rather ...
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Performing Transnational Identity | 109 |
Conjuring the Past Imagining Europe | 177 |
Notes on Contributors | 265 |
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