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100 1 _aNgaboh-Smart, Francis,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBeyond Empire and Nation :
_bPostnational Arguments in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah and B. Kojo Laing /
_cFrancis Ngaboh-Smart.
246 3 _aPostnational Arguments in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah and B. Kojo Laing
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2004.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCross/Cultures ;
_v70
490 1 _aCross/Cultures Online
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_tAcknowledgements /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_tIntroduction /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_t1 Nationalism and the Aporia of National Identity /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_t2 Gifts, Narratives, Identities, and the Postcolonial /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_t3 Desire and the Limits of the Modern Nation /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_t4 Counter-Nationalist Narrative /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_t5 Beyond Empire and Nation: Re-Narrating Identity /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_t6 Science and the Space of the Modern African Nation /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_tConclusion /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart --
_tWorks Cited /
_rFrancis Ngaboh-Smart.
520 _aThe impact of nationalism on the emergence and development of African literature is now well documented. Globalization or the postnational state it seems to herald, the emblematic phenomenon of our era, has not received much attention. Using a cultural studies approach, Beyond Empire and Nation is a fascinating account of the process of globalization in African Literature. The book starts with an analysis of nationalist rhetoric and ideology as exemplified by works such as Things Fall Apart. Thereafter, it dedicates a chapter each to B. Kojo Laing's novels and Nuruddin Farah's Trilogy (Maps, Gifts, and Secrets) as articulations of a globalized, postnational reality. At the heart o the book is an analysis of a nuanced and complex experience of global modernity as Africans reassess the constants of nationalist discourse: culture, identity, locality, and territoriality. Ngaboh-Smart does not believe that the postnational phenomenon is necessarily detrimental to the national-state and argues that it may well be capable of generating a new form of individual agency, although he is critical of those writers who ignore the new power dynamic inherent in globalization. Moving beyond the "clash of cultures" paradigm, Ngaboh-Smart's account of the renegotiation of national identity and ideology is a significant contribution to the criticism of African literature and its link to global social processes.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAfrican literature (English)
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aInternationalism.
650 0 _aPostcolonialism in literature.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tBeyond Empire and Nation : Postnational Arguments in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah and B. Kojo Laing.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004
_z9789042009806
_w(OCoLC)72762500
830 0 _aCross/Cultures ;
_v70.
830 0 _aCross/Cultures Online.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004486485
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