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Post-National Enquiries : Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings by Jopi Nyman, Editor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The studies collected in this volume address a variety of cultural narratives of diverse border crossings. Through their focus on various historical and contemporary border phenomena in Europe and the United States, the essays show that the border-crossing migrant challenges the view that people belong to one particular nation-state and culture. The essays in the first part of the volume explore of the problematics of “race” in theoretical and practical border crossings including the theories of sociologist Paul Gilroy, multicultural casting in American theatre, and the fiction of James Baldwin. In the second part the focus is on encounters with whiteness and problems of constructing ethnic identity in the cinema of Elia Kazan, Jewish American fiction, and Toni Morrison’s most recent novel A Mercy (2008). The third part of the volume explores the sites and practices of border by providing case analyses of the Muslim veil in Europe and the Finnish-Russian border. The final part of the volume is devoted to the problematization of borders in the fiction of the South Asian American writer Bharati Mukherjee.

Who reads Post-National Enquiries : Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings?

Author

Jopi Nyman, Editor

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443805933

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Memoir