| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of figures and tables -- Foreword / by Nur Yalman -- Preface by / Gönül Pultar -- Introduction: from empire to the "irresistible shift" / Gönül Pultar -- Fiction and transnational identity -- The transnational Indian novel in English : cultural parasites and postcolonial praxis / Pramod K. Nayar -- Capturing a nation : the elusiveness of cultural identity in Khaled Hosseini's The kite runner / Tanja Stampfl -- Lost in transition, or a life in between : the move from empire to nation in Pascali's island / Andrea Rosso Efthymiou -- Nonfiction as identity forger -- Creating ethnic memory : Takuhi Tovmasyan's "Merry meals" / Gönül Pultar -- Foreign news : a flagship of the nation in an age of globalization / Anna Roosvall -- "Malaysia : truly Asia" : double consciousness in Malaysia's tourism advertising, or the double jeopardy of being Malaysian / Dawn Morais -- Performing identity -- "Was guckst du?"/"whaddaya lookin' at?" : de/constructing Germanness in prime-time ethnic Turkish-German humor / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Blackface minstrelsy and ethnic identity as globalized market commodities / Cathy Covell Waegner -- Albert Isaac Bezzerides : translating ethnicity from fiction to film / Yiorgos Kalogeras -- National identities at leisure : the case of theme parks / Simona Sangiorgi -- Identity formation in the post-Soviet space -- Patterns of identity formation in the post-Soviet space : Odessa as a case study / Abel Polese -- The role of the Turkic component in current Kazakhstani identity formation / Timur Kozyrev -- Globalization as fuel, ethnicity as engine : how markets reactivate local culture / Emil Nasritdinov and Kevin O'Connor -- The new eastern question : nationhood betwxxiveen faith and modernity -- "The nation and its fragments" : examining the Indian and the Egyptian nationalist models / Samaa Gamie -- Building a diaspora, adopting a new nationality : Egyptian copts in the United States / Fouad N. Ibrahim and Barbara Ibrahim -- The politics of identity in Lebanon : the case of Hizballah / Samer Abboud -- Positions -- American, United Statian, usamerican, or gringo? / Luís Cláudio Villafañe G. Santos -- Nation-state, national identity, and national culture in the era of globalization / Grigol Ubiria -- Notes -- Works cited -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Group identity.
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Group identity. |
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Culture and globalization.
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Culture and globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pultar, Gönül, 1943- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Imagined identities. First Edition 9780815633426 (DLC) 2013051105 (OCoLC)869141003 |
| ISBN |
9780815652595 (electronic book) |
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0815652593 (electronic book) |
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9780815652267 (ebook) |
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0815652267 (ebook) |
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9780815633426 |
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0815633424 |
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