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Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses

Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses

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Series: Transitions. Transdisciplinary, Transmedial and Transnational Cultural Studies / Transdisziplinare,, Book 5

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 3847116576
ISBN13: 9783847116578
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Published: Dec 4 2023
Pages: 217
Weight: 0.83
Language: English
These contributions offer penetrating insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belonging and denationalization in selected European contexts. Various critical perspectives are employed here to highlight modern social and political processes as registered and, to a certain extent, also fashioned by contemporary literary discourses. 'Reimagined communities' emerge from literary redescriptions of existing or imaginary sociopolitical configurations in several European states or regions. All the contributions are marked by a heightened sensitivity to the individual as enmeshed in oppressive geopolitical circumstances. Thereby, literary expressions of how individuality is constrained by social pressures may offer inspiring blueprints for emancipation.

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