Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation

Sheera Talpaz is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is completing her first monograph on the figure and concept of the national poet in Palestinian and modern Hebrew literature, for which she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award.Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently retired as Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College, USA. She has published extensively on anglophone postcolonial literatures, feminist theory and on the work of Shyam Benegal, a filmmaker associated with Parallel or New Indian Cinema.

• Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Text and NationSheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney NeedhamPart 1: SubjectivitiesA. Affect & Memory Studies1. The National Guilt Novel: A Transnational PerspectiveMarzena Sokołowska-Paryż 2. Redemptions of Past Futures in Yael Bartana’s WorkMazalit Haim3. Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist LiteratureSheera Talpaz4. Post-Brexit Nation, Anxious Communities, and Affective Politics in Sarah Moss’s SummerwaterWiktoria TunskaB. Gender, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism5. On the Thoughtlessness of Not Reading: National Allegory and Sexual Violence in A.B. Yehoshua’s The LoverOren Yirmiya6. Biwi ya Tawaif/Wife or Courtesan: Sites of Female Representation in Bombay Cinema of the “Fifties Moment”Anuradha Dingwaney Needham7. Padmaavat and Manikarma: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi CinemaRituparna Sengupta8. Heart-to-Heart Conversations After September 11: Nation and National Belonging in Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams and Alia Yunis’s The Night CounterÖzlem AtarC. Interrogating Normativity: Queerness and Disability9. Performing Queer Citizenship Across Law and LiteratureNamrata Verghese10. “A Country Far Away as Health”: Hannah Arendt, Prosthetic Speech, and Political CommunityAndrew David KingPart II: TemporalitiesA. Historical and Historiographic Interventions11. Suspicion, Anxiety, and Revenge: Deconstructing the Zionist Hermeneutics of a National Hebrew PoetHannan Hever12. Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Hindi CinemaRavi S. Vasudevan13. Nation and the Modern Hero: A Study of Early South Indian NovelsGayatri Thanu Pillai14. Constituting the Nation: Chile’s Constitution and the Reimagination of National IdentitySteven S. VolkB. Contemporary Flux: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Universalism15. Universalism and Other Nationalisms: Re-Reading Milton After 9/11Samuel P. Catlin16. The Desti/nation of Sri Lanka: Mapping the Cosmopolitan-Capitalist Framework of Cultural TourismShelby E. Ward17. Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pabón and the Critique of the National in Puerto Rico, 1993-2003.Sergio Gutiérrez NegrónC. “National Allegories”18. Sectarian Gothic: Egyptian Necromantics on the Lebanese MountainAlexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)19. The Nation at a Wobbly JunctureRania Elshabassy20. Indo-Trinidadian Navigations of Belonging, Nationhood, and Diasporic IdentityVictoria ChangD. Utopian Horizons21. Writing Beyond the Nation: Ali Smith’s Seasonal QuartetBurcu Kayışcı Akkoyun22. Bacchus in Bucolic Britain: The Textual Unconscious of Sex Education in a Divided United KingdomStuart Innes Molloy23. Aryan Racism and Political Utopianism in Catalan NationalismCesar Guarde-PazPart III: SitesA. Museums and Other Archives of Material Culture24. Wild Places and Glass Cases: Un/tamed Landscapes, Museum Exhibitions, and the American Identity in the Long NineteenthSofia Lago25. Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National SubjectSarah Abdullah26. Imagined Communities of Dress: Early Modern Costume Books and the Perception of National IdentitiesEmilia Olechnowicz27. Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine AquariumEeva SavolainenB. The Medical Humanities: Pandemic Spaces28. Healing Movements Across America: Connections of Gender, Place, and Struggle in the Pandemic Cinema of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDSEdward Chamberlain29. Writing the Good Story, Reading the NationCarlos RojasC. Crossing and Renegotiating Borders: Travel, Transnationalism, and Micronatiohood30. The Western and the Literary Construction of Polishness in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyMarek Paryż31. Scripted Borders: Constructing “Nation” through the Performance of MicronationhoodRobert Motum32. (Trans)National Woes: Translating and Reading the Nation AwayBaşak Çandar