Category: New Nationalisms in European and Postcolonial Discourses

Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria, May 23, 2009 | © Courtesy of Arian Zwegers/Flickr.

New Article: “Qabbani versus Qur’an”: Arabism and the Umma in Robin Yassin-Kassab’s The Road from Damascus

Tasnim Qutait Published Online: 2018-05-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0008. Abstract In The Road from Damascus (2008), Syrian-British writer Robin Yassin-Kassab’s debut novel, the protagonist describes “the opposing camps of [his] childhood,” as narratives of “Qabbani...

EU referendum "IN" boats, London, England, UK, June 15, 2016 | © Courtesy of Raphaël Chekroun/Flickr.

New Article: The Strategies of Ultranationalist Discourse: This Is England and Brexit

J. Rubén Valdés-Miyares Published Online: 2018-05-17 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0006. Abstract A speech given by the skinhead Combo in the film This is England (2006) provides the ground for an analysis of far-right nationalism. This...

New Article: National Identities, Personal Crises: Amnesia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

Catherine Charlwood Published Online: 2018-04-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0004 Abstract This article considers how Ishiguro’s 2015 novel about mass forgetting in post-Arthurian Britain adds to debates about what it means to be a human living within a society....

New Article: Escaping National Tags and Embracing Diversity: Third Culture Kid Songwriters

Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz Published Online: 2018-04-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0003 Abstract Nowadays, more and more writers cannot be classified according to one single nation. Whereas in Imagined Communities Anderson describes the development of nations and national belongings, in Third...

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