Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation

by Imre Szeman

Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In describing unstable social and political cultures, such third-world intellectuals often find themselves torn between the competing literary requirements of the local culture of the colony and the cosmopolitan, world culture introduced by Western civilization.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868033
• ISBN13: 9780801868030
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.2"