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Thresholds of Western Culture (Foster, Jr. John Burt (Hrsg.) / Froman, Wayne (Hrsg.))
Thresholds of Western Culture
Untertitel Identity, Postcoloniality, Transnationalism
Autor Foster, Jr. John Burt (Hrsg.) / Froman, Wayne (Hrsg.)
Verlag Bloomsbury 3PL
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
Seiten 284 S.
Artikelnummer 35805256
ISBN 978-0-8264-6001-1
CHF 166.00
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Zusammenfassung
Exploring three closely related topics that contest received attitudes about cultural identity, this book opens with two complementary challenges from within the West: the critique of orthodox positions on subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism.

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.

John Burt Foster is Professor of World and Comparative Literature at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is past editor of The Comparatist, an annual journal for comparative literary study, and now edits Recherche litteraire / Literary Research, a bilingual international journal in the same field. Wayne J. Froman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at George Mason University.