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Release Year
1997
Book Title
Nationalism
ISBN
9780814731130
Subject Area
Political Science
Publication Name
Nationalism
Publisher
New York University Press
Item Length
9 in
Subject
General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Ernest Gellner
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
1 Pages
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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814731139
ISBN-13
9780814731130
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1015140

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
1 Pages
Publication Name
Nationalism
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Subject
General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Ernest Gellner
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
97-033629
Reviews
"Young encourages readers to use her work to further develop the idea of the Frankenstein metaphor. She has given scholars of literature and metaphorical studies an excellent place to begin." -Edward Dauterich, African American Review, ( "Young's study itself reanimates the critical relationship between artistic form and political function, indicating--regardless of the genre or even the political debate--the distinctly intertwined existences of social history, cultural critique, basic aesthetics, and generic form." )-( The Journal of American History ),(), In Black Frankenstein , Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized by design, as well as unconsciously, into a racial paradigm." - Eric J. Sundquist, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America, "A subtle, complex, and deeply read romp through the last two centuries of transatlantic literary and cultural history. Truly eye-opening and provocative." - Eric Lott, University of Virginia, "Young's 'black Frankenstein' monster becomes a powerful metaphor for negotiating the racial anxieties of modern America. As the author recounts, the figure appears in both racist and antiracist discourses, exhibiting the powerful mobility of the monster metaphor as well as its popular appeal. Young combines sharp analysis with her amazing research, noteworthy for its breadth and scope, to demonstrate the depths to which this image has penetrated American racial cultures. Whether she is examining novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, filmmaker Mel Brooks, or comedian Dick Gregory, Young offers astute readings of the cultural text and its racial underpinnings. Building on recent work by Paul Gilroy, Teresa Goddu, Toni Morrison, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri, this book provides a compelling new vision of the monster we thought we knew so well. Highly recommended." - Choice
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
320.54
Synopsis
A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly. Nationalism remains a powerful influence today; in the former Yugoslavia and the successor states of the Soviet Union it has instigated great violence and attrocity. In this incisive and provocative book, completed just before his death, Ernest Gellner - described as "one of the last of the great central European polymath intellectuals" by the Financial Times - explores the phenomenon of nationalism, tracing its emergence and roots in the modern industrialized nation state, its links with romanticism and its creation of national myhs. He investigates its various manifestations and reveals how in long established states such as France, it has been relatively benign, while in Eastern Europe in particular - where nationalist feeling preceded the emergence of modern states - its influence has been far more problematic, and at times disastrous. Finally, the book explores the prospects of minimizing the influence of nationalist feeling and cautiously anticipates the possibility of its decline in this decade of continuing atrocities and "ethnic cleansing." Lucid and direct, Gellner's work combines politics, history, philosophy, and anthropolgy with the multidisciplinary flair for which he was renowned. As nationalism continues to inform contemporary politics, often with vicious and tragic results, Gellner's last words on the subject are essential reading.
LC Classification Number
JC311.G475 1997

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