Beyond Imagined Uniqueness
Nationalisms in Contemporary PerspectivesEdited by Joan Burbick and William Glass
Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspectives is a collection of essays from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives that explore the contentious issue of nationalism in historical and contemporary settings. They adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of nationalism and its permutations and modes of expression. The unspoken context of these essays is the trends subsumed under the processes of globalization. Though the world may be becoming more integrated economically, these essays suggest social, cultural, and political forces, historically rooted, keep the nation and national identity alive and well.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE X
INTRODUCTION – JOAN BURBICK Paradoxes of Belonging: The Legacies of Nationalism 1
PART I
IMAGINING NATIONALISM IN LANGUAGE, MONUMENTS, AND VISUAL CULTURE
CHAPTER ONE – TOMASZ ZYRO The Idea of Covenant and a Rise of Nationalism 13
CHAPTER TWO – AHU ANTMEN Making or Breaking? Authority, Charisma and Public Monuments: The Case of Atatürk Monuments in Turkey 35
CHAPTER THREE – GRZEGORZ KOSC Nation-Building through Portraiture during the Cold War 47
CHAPTER FOUR – HENIO HOYO Posting Nationalism Postage Stamps as Carriers of Nationalist Messages 67
CHAPTER FIVE – DAVID A. JONES Nationalism in China: Is It Increasing? Is This Helpfull? 93
CHAPTER SIX – ROMAN SZUL Minority, Regional, and Immigrant Languages in Europe: New Glory and Old Misery 107
CHAPTER SEVEN – ANDREW JACOB An Alternate Nationalism: A Comparative Study of B. R. Ambedkar and Ernest Renan 127
PART II
IMAGINING NATIONALISMS: CASE STUDIES
CHAPTER EIGHT – EFE CAN GÜRCAN The Evolution of Turkish Nationalism: An Unconventional Approach Based on a Comparative and International Perspective 141
CHAPTER NINE – KONRAD BLAZEJOWSKI Connecting Past and Present: Nationalism in Sino-Japanese Relations 169
CHAPTER TEN – MICHA L WAWRZONEK Andrey Sheptytsky’s “Christian Patriotism” in Light of Ukrainian Nationalism 191
CHAPTER ELEVEN – ANDREW KIER WISE The European Union and the “Oriental Other” in Polish Nationalist Discourse 207
CHAPTER TWELVE – NELLY BEKUS Belarus after 1989: the Struggle over the Nation between the Of fi cial and the Alternative Public Discourses 241
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – NATALIA SINEAEVA-PANKOWSKA Multiple Identities as a Basis for Construction of (Post)Modern Moldovan Identity 261
PART III
IMAGINING THE HOMELAND: IDENTITY AND IMMIGRANT NATIONALISMS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN – ANNA KRAWCZYK- LASKARZEWSKA The World’s Longest One-Way Mirror: Contemporary American (Literary) Studies in Search of a Postnational Poetics 291
CHAPTER FIFTEEN – WEI -CHEN ROGER IU Global Universalism or Diasporic Particularism? An Analysis of Akram Khan’s “If Not, Why Not?” 305
CHAPTER SIXTEEN – KLARA SZMANKO African-American and Asian-American Nationalism in a Comparative Perspective in Sam Greenlee’s The Spook Who Sat by the Door and Maxine Hong Kingstson’s Tripmaster Monkey 321
CHAPTER S EVENTEEN – ANNA BRANACH -KALLAS Between the Diaspora and the Nation: Multicultural Identity Negotiations in Selected Asian-Canadian Writings 347
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – ANNA KOWALIK Writing at the Frontiers of Postcolonial Geography: Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge 367
CHAPTER NINETEEN – AGNIESZKA STASIEWICZ Swedish-American Childhood and the Hybrid Identity of a Young Generation: Thoughts of a Prairie Child by Anna Olsson 385
CHAPTER TWENTY – ANNA SOSNOWSKA Poles, Jews, and Puerto Ricans: Polish Greenpoint Community Leaders on New York City Ethnic Groups 409
CONTRIBUTORS 433
INDEX 437
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Hardback with protective cover, english, 440 pages
