Thresholds of western culture : identity, postcoloniality, transnationalism

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Thresholds of western culture : identity, postcoloniality, transnationalism

Author:

Froman, Wayne Jeffrey, 1945-

ISBN:

9780826459992

9780826460011

Publication Information:

New York ; London : Continuum, 2002.

Physical Description:

vi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Textures

Series Title:

Textures

General Note:

This volume grew out of the twentieth annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature on the topic Dramas of culture, held at George Mason University.

Subject Term:

Civilization, Western -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Froman, Wayne Jeffrey, 1945-

Foster, John Burt, 1945-

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Thresholds of Western Culture explores identity, postcoloniality and transnationalism--three closely related issues which redefine contemporary cultural identity.The book opens with an analysis of subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism in the West. The situation in Africa is then explored which, while recalling modernity's dark side, highlights the intricacy of postcolonial identity. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe presents a separate case of neglected postcoloniality which emphasizes how ethnocentrism and cultural tensions have exposed the fragility of transnationalism. The book concludes with an examination of East Asia, a region which offers transnational options potentially much more fruitful than Balkanization.>

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