The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-43558-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world who engage fresh critical lenses, from affect studies to the medical humanities, and re-energize established frameworks to examine the interplay between cultural production and conceptualizations of the nation and nationalism. The scholarship in this volume takes as its objects of analysis various forms of aesthetic and cultural production, from film and literature to museums and costume books, enriching the conversation that has often siloed these forms.

Geared toward scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates across the humanities and social sciences, this timely, interdisciplinary collection is issued at a critical juncture in the transformation of the nation and the global resurgence of regressive and populist nationalist movements. Both offering new insights reorienting our understanding of canonical materials and bringing noncanonical works to light, this volume challenges long-held assumptions about the nation while establishing its continued significance and future possibilities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney

Talpaz, Sheera

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Text and Nation

Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham



Part 1: Subjectivities

A. Affect & Memory Studies

1. The National Guilt Novel: A Transnational Perspective

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz

2. Redemptions of Past Futures in Yael Bartana’s Work

Mazalit Haim

3. Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature

Sheera Talpaz

4. Post-Brexit Nation, Anxious Communities, and Affective Politics in Sarah Moss’s Summerwater

Wiktoria Tunska



B. Gender, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism

5. On the Thoughtlessness of Not Reading: National Allegory and Sexual Violence in A.B. Yehoshua’s The Lover

Oren Yirmiya

6. Biwi ya Tawaif/Wife or Courtesan: Sites of Female Representation in Bombay Cinema of the “Fifties Moment”

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

7. Padmaavat and Manikarma: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema

Rituparna Sengupta

8. Heart-to-Heart Conversations After September 11: Nation and National Belonging in Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams and Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter

Özlem Atar

C. Interrogating Normativity: Queerness and Disability

9. Performing Queer Citizenship Across Law and Literature

Namrata Verghese

10. “A Country Far Away as Health”: Hannah Arendt, Prosthetic Speech, and Political Community

Andrew David King









Part II: Temporalities

A. Historical and Historiographic Interventions

11. Suspicion, Anxiety, and Revenge: Deconstructing the Zionist Hermeneutics of a National Hebrew Poet

Hannan Hever

12. Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Hindi Cinema

Ravi S. Vasudevan

13. Nation and the Modern Hero: A Study of Early South Indian Novels

Gayatri Thanu Pillai

14. Constituting the Nation: Chile’s Constitution and the Reimagination of National Identity

Steven S. Volk



B. Contemporary Flux: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Universalism

15. Universalism and Other Nationalisms: Re-Reading Milton After 9/11

Samuel P. Catlin

16. The Desti/nation of Sri Lanka: Mapping the Cosmopolitan-Capitalist Framework of Cultural Tourism

Shelby E. Ward

17. Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pabón and the Critique of the National in Puerto Rico, 1993-2003.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón



C. “National Allegories”

18. Sectarian Gothic: Egyptian Necromantics on the Lebanese Mountain

Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)

19. The Nation at a Wobbly Juncture

Rania Elshabassy

20. Indo-Trinidadian Navigations of Belonging, Nationhood, and Diasporic Identity

Victoria Chang



D. Utopian Horizons

21. Writing Beyond the Nation: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

Burcu Kayisci Akkoyun

22. Bacchus in Bucolic Britain: The Textual Unconscious of Sex Education in a Divided United Kingdom

Stuart Innes Molloy

23. Aryan Racism and Political Utopianism in Catalan Nationalism

Cesar Guarde-Paz



Part III: Sites

A. Museums and Other Archives of Material Culture

24. Wild Places and Glass Cases: Un/tamed Landscapes, Museum Exhibitions, and the American Identity in the Long Nineteenth

Sofia Lago

25. Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National Subject

Sarah Abdullah

26. Imagined Communities of Dress: Early Modern Costume Books and the Perception of National Identities

Emilia Olechnowicz

27. Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine Aquarium

Eeva Savolainen



B. The Medical Humanities: Pandemic Spaces

28. Healing Movements Across America: Connections of Gender, Place, and Struggle in the Pandemic Cinema of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS

Edward Chamberlain

29. Writing the Good Story, Reading the Nation

Carlos Rojas



C. Crossing and Renegotiating Borders: Travel, Transnationalism, and Micronatiohood

30. The Western and the Literary Construction of Polishness in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Marek Paryz

31. Scripted Borders: Constructing “Nation” through the Performance of Micronationhood

Robert Motum

32. (Trans)National Woes: Translating and Reading the Nation Away

Basak Çandar

Über Autor(innen)

Sheera Talpaz is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is completing her first monograph on the figure and concept of the national poet in Palestinian and modern Hebrew literature, for which she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award.

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently retired as Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College, USA. She has published extensively on anglophone postcolonial literatures, feminist theory and on the work of Shyam Benegal, a filmmaker associated with Parallel or New Indian Cinema.