With great respect and attention to detail, Momaday tells a story of four days in the lives of Native American people who are struggling to maintain their identity in the ever-changing and approaching modern world.
Krishna explains differing views of nationalism and ethnic identity, as expressed in India and Sri Lanka. For India, some of this arises out of religious differences with Pakistan. And for both India and Sri Lanka, the issues came out of the British decolonisation. Each had severe problems making a national identity. The bloody separation between India and Pakistan is briefly gone into.
In this nuanced study of the performance of cultural identity, Jane E. Goodman travels from contemporary Kabyle Berber communities in Algeria and France to the colonial archives, identifying the products, performances, and media through which Berber identity has developed. In the 1990s, with a major Islamist insurgency underway in Algeria, Berber cultural associations created performance forms that challenged Islamist premises while critiquing their own village practices.
A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction, relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity and covers different forms of fiction.
