Anshuman A Mondal

Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity

Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nationalism, based on a trenchant critique of theorists such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm and Anthony Smith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780415600156
• ISBN-10: 0415600154
• Artikelnr.: 32461250

Autorenporträt

Anshuman A Mondal

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Nationalism as Cultural Politics 2. The Prehistory of
Gandhian Nationalism 3. A Tragedy of Idealism: Utopianism and the Imagined
Community of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj 4. The Making and Unmaking of Gandhian
Ideology: Raja Rao's Kanthapura 5. An Anatomy of Egyptian Secular-Liberal
Nationalism 6. Tawfiq al-Hakim and the Dark Side of Egyptian
Secular-Liberal Nationalist Discourse 7. Naguib Mahfouz, National Allegory
and Neopatriarchy: The Cairo Trilogy 8. Reflections on Nationalism, Culture
and Ideology In India and Egypt