Thresholds of western culture : identity, postcoloniality, transnationalism / edited by John Burt Foster, Jr. and Wayne Jeffrey Froman.
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 i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
2002.
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| Series: | Textures (New York, N.Y.)
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| Summary: | 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. Th. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-265) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781847143280 1847143288 9781472545992 1472545990 9780567415264 0567415260 128129862X 9781281298621 9786611298623 6611298622 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
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