Editorsâ Introduction: Cultural Text and Nation
Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
Part 1: Subjectivities
A. Affect & Memory Studies
1. The National Guilt Novel: A Transnational Perspective
Marzena SokoÅowska-Paryż
2. Redemptions of Past Futures in Yael Bartanaâs Work
Mazalit Haim
3. Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature
Sheera Talpaz
4. Post-Brexit Nation, Anxious Communities, and Affective Politics in Sarah Mossâs Summerwater
Wiktoria Tunska
B. Gender, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism
5. On the Thoughtlessness of Not Reading: National Allegory and Sexual Violence in A.B. Yehoshuaâs The Lover
Oren Yirmiya
6. Biwi ya Tawaif/Wife or Courtesan: Sites of Female Representation in Bombay Cinema of the âFifties Momentâ
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
7. Padmaavat and Manikarma: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema
Rituparna Sengupta
8. Heart-to-Heart Conversations After September 11: Nation and National Belonging in Shaila Abdullahâs Saffron Dreams and Alia Yunisâs The Night Counter
-zlem Atar
C. Interrogating Normativity: Queerness and Disability
9. Performing Queer Citizenship Across Law and Literature
Namrata Verghese
10. âA Country Far Away as Healthâ: Hannah Arendt, Prosthetic Speech, and Political Community
Andrew David King
Part II: Temporalities
A. Historical and Historiographic Interventions
11. Suspicion, Anxiety, and Revenge: Deconstructing the Zionist Hermeneutics of a National Hebrew Poet
Hannan Hever
12. Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Hindi Cinema
Ravi S. Vasudevan
13. Nation and the Modern Hero: A Study of Early South Indian Novels
Gayatri Thanu Pillai
14. Constituting the Nation: Chileâs Constitution and the Reimagination of National Identity
Steven S. Volk
B. Contemporary Flux: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Universalism
15. Universalism and Other Nationalisms: Re-Reading Milton After 9/11
Samuel P. Catlin
16. The Desti/nation of Sri Lanka: Mapping the Cosmopolitan-Capitalist Framework of Cultural Tourism
Shelby E. Ward
17. Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pab³n and the Critique of the National in Puerto Rico, 1993-2003.
Sergio Guti©rrez Negr³n
C. âNational Allegoriesâ
18. Sectarian Gothic: Egyptian Necromantics on the Lebanese Mountain
Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)
19. The Nation at a Wobbly Juncture
Rania Elshabassy
20. Indo-Trinidadian Navigations of Belonging, Nationhood, and Diasporic Identity
Victoria Chang
D. Utopian Horizons
21. Writing Beyond the Nation: Ali Smithâs Seasonal Quartet
Burcu KayıÅ?cı Akkoyun
22. Bacchus in Bucolic Britain: The Textual Unconscious of Sex Education in a Divided United Kingdom
Stuart Innes Molloy
23. Aryan Racism and Political Utopianism in Catalan Nationalism
Cesar Guarde-Paz
Part III: Sites
A. Museums and Other Archives of Material Culture
24. Wild Places and Glass Cases: Un/tamed Landscapes, Museum Exhibitions, and the American Identity in the Long Nineteenth
Sofia Lago
25. Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National Subject
Sarah Abdullah
26. Imagined Communities of Dress: Early Modern Costume Books and the Perception of National Identities
Emilia Olechnowicz
27. Textual Aquaria and Imperial Voyeurism: Underwater Poetry and the Development of the Victorian Marine Aquarium
Eeva Savolainen
B. The Medical Humanities: Pandemic Spaces
28. Healing Movements Across America: Connections of Gender, Place, and Struggle in the Pandemic Cinema of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS
Edward Chamberlain
29. Writing the Good Story, Reading the Nation
Carlos Rojas
C. Crossing and Renegotiating Borders: Travel, Transnationalism, and Micronatiohood
30. The Western and the Literary Construction of Polishness in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Marek Paryż
31. Scripted Borders: Constructing âNationâ through the Performance of Micronationhood
Robert Motum
32. (Trans)National Woes: Translating and Reading the Nation Away
BaÅ?ak andar