Performing national identity: Anglo-Italian cultural transactions
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2008
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 114
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Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions; Contents; Introduction: Performing National Identity; 1. Early Modern Literary Exchanges; 2. Italian and English Art in Dialogue; 3. Travelling Images; 4. Political Negotiations; 5. Contemporary Mediations; Notes on Contributors
National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances--ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to 'cultural performances' such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media--that cultural identity a
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
ISBN:1435615441
9042023147
940120523X
9781435615441
9789042023147
9789401205238

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