"In this new revised edition, Herzfeld expands his discussion of what cultural intimacy has come to mean, and explores how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them."--Jacket
"In this new revised edition, Herzfeld expands his discussion of what cultural intimacy has come to mean, and explores how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them."--Jacket.
Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema -- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent 'Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua' (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: 'A door to the sky' (Morocc…
"This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state …
"This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state …
"This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state …