(Re)Mapping the centres Membership and State

Trevor Harris

• Publisher: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
• Year: 2000
• eBook ISBN:
  9782869064737
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Critique littéraire

How is it possible to belong to a territory when its boundaries are no longer exclusively physical? How can we define the centre, or allegiance to that centre, at the beginning of the third millennium, if that centre cannot hold? 2In an age when appeals are made both to sovereignty and "the global village", when terms such as "subsidiarity" and "the international community" have become common currency, the notion of membership is irrevocably plural. 3This obviously invites reflection upon the fluctuating relations between central authority and secessionist tendencies in a historical perspective. Today one might consider that the issues of federalism and devolution are not necessarily incompatible. Another case in point would be the tensions between competing conceptions of nationhood experienced in America, between the "melting pot" and a genuinely multicultural society, and between the various linguistic, social, religious and ideological identities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bibliographic informations
• First pages
• Table of contents
• Avant-propos
• (Re-)mapping the centres: membership and state
• National and Local Identity: Maps and the English "Country-House" Poem
• Forms and Problems of Patriotism in the 21st Century: Patriotism versus Mondialisation
• Immigrant Identities, Diaspora Communities, and Cultural Constructions of Nationalism in the United States
• A Poetry of Devolution
• Ideology, Language and Identity in Wales
• Literary Studies, Disciplinarity and Symbolic Anthropology
• La Cartographie de la Terre vaine : caviardage ou palimpseste ?
• Poetry
• "African-Americans" ou l'appartenance plurielle : le cas de la communauté MOVE à Philadelphie
• "Racial" Diversity and American Unity in Affirmative Action Cases
• Mestizas and Cyborgs R Us: Ontological Nomadism and the Transnational Public Sphere in Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless
• A Case of British Resistance to EU Membership: Euroscepticism in the Conservative Party
• The Autumn of the Matriarch: British Cinema and Fading Thatcherism in My Beautiful Laundrette, Priest and The Full Monty
• Epic Realism and the Western Canon in Hanif Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia
• Internationalist Political Thought
• L’Épicentre cathartique : figures du déplacement chez les Muckrakers au tournant du siècle
• Somewhere Inside the Rainbow: the Use of Marginality in the Lesbian and Gay Movement in the U.S.A.
• The Decentralization of Power within the U.S. Congress since 1937: Pluralism or Elitism?
• Devolution: A Project for a New Welsh National and Cultural Identity