nationalism contemporary interventions post-contemporary

books:

Wedded to the land?: Gender, boundaries, and nationalism-in-crisis (Post-contemporary interventions)
Mary N Layoun

Duke University Press, 2000

In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees? displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and ...

Modernism in Greece
Mary N. Layoun

Pella Publishing Company, 1990

Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology
Mary N. Layoun

Princeton Univ Pr, 1990

If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative expectations, to what extent can that history of the novel be anticipated in non-Western contexts? In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cultures, which initially considered the novel a foreign genre, a cultural accoutrement of "Western" ...