Topics in Representations

National Identities


These articles--dealing with everything from Russia's relationship to Siberian people to race, nation, and masculinity in the King Tut exhibition--approach the question of how nation, "the people," and national identity are constituted outside or beside ideology. Together they aim to rescue our thinking about national cultures from the thrall of nationalism.




 

Janet Adelman, "Her Father's Blood: Race, Conversation, and Nation in The Merchant of Venice," Winter 2003, 81: 4-30.

 

Siraj Ahmed, "The Theater of the Civilized Self: Edmund Burke and the East India Trials," Spring 2002, 78: 28-55.

 

Svetlana Boym, "From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia," Winter 1995, 49: 133-66.

 

Katherine Breen, "Returning Home from Jerusalem: Matthew Paris's First Map of Britain in Its Manuscript Context," Winter 2005, 89: 59-93.

 

Bill Brown, "Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture," Spring 1997, 58: 24-48.

 

T. J. Clark, "Painting in the Year Two," Summer 1994, 47: 13-63.

 

James Clifford, "On Ethnographic Authority," Spring 1983, 2: 118-46.

 

David Damrosch, "The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry Before and After Cortés," Winter 1991, 33: 101-20.

 

Antoine de Baecque, "The Allegorical Image of France, 1750-1800: A Political Crisis of Representation," Summer 1994, 47: 111-143.

 

Joan DeJean, "Sex and Philology: Sappho and the Rise of German Nationalism," Summer 1989, 27: 148-71.

 

Nicholas B. Dirks, "Castes of Mind," Winter 1992, 37: 56-78.

 

Richard S. Esbenshade, "Remembering to Forget: Memory, History, National Identity in Postwar East-Central Europe," Winter 1995, 49: 72-96.

 

Roberta Frank, "Terminally Hip and Incredibly Cool: Carol, Vikings, and Anglo-Scandinavian England," Fall 2007, 100: 23-33.

 

Irene Gorak, "Enter Beadle with Whips: Pauline Smith's The Beadle and the Afrikaner as Fetish," Summer 1993, 43: 73-88.

 

Mitsuro Hashimoto, "Collision at Namamugi" (trans. Betsey Scheiner), Spring 1987, 18: 69-90. 

 

Eric Hayot, "Chinese Bodies, Chinese Futures," Summer 2007, 99: 99-129.

 

Jerry Herron, "Homer Simpson's Eyes and the Cutlure of Late Nostalgia," Summer 1993, 43: 1-26.

 

Carla Hesse and Thomas Laqueur, eds., National Cultures Before Nationalism, special issue, Summer 1994, number 47.

 

Norman Jacobson, "Escape from Alienation: Challenges to the Nation-State," Fall 2003, 84: 44-51.

 

David N. Keightley, "Archeology and Mentality: The Making of China," Spring 1987, 18: 91-128. 

 

Lisbet Koerner, Linnaeus' Floral Transplants," Summer 1994, 47: 144-169.

 

Eric Lott, "The First Boomer: Bill Clinton, George W., and Fictions of State," Fall 2003, 84: 100-122.

 

Julia Reinhard Lupton, "Othello Circumcised: Shakespeare and the Pauline Discourse of Nations," Winter 1997, 57: 73-89.

 

Colleen Lye, "Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies," Summer 207, 99: 1-12.

 

Sabine MacCormack, "Demons, Imagination, and the Incas," Winter 1991, 33: 121-46.

 

Harold Mah, "The Epistemology of the Sentence: Language, Civility, and Identity in France and Germany, Diderot to Nietzsche," Summer 1994, 47: 64-84.

 

Edward Marx, "How We Lost Kafiristan," Summer 1999, 67: 44-66.

 

Melani McAlister, "The Common Heritage of Mankind: Race, Nation, and Masculinity in the King Tut Exhibit," Spring 1996, 54: 80-103.

 

Steven Mullaney, "Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance," Summer 1983, 3: 40-67.

 

Ricardo Padrón, "Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography,Space, and Hispanic Modernity," Summer 2002, 79: 28-60.

 

Deborah Poole, "Figueroa Aznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Peru," Spring 1992, 38: 39-75.

 

Peter Sahlins, "Fictions of a Catholic France: The Naturalization of Foreigners, 1685-1787," Summer 1994, 47: 85-110.

 

James Schamus, "Next Year in Munich: Zionism, Masculinity, and Diaspora in Spielberg's Epic," Fall 2007, 100: 53-66.

 

Philip Schwyzer, "The Scouring of the White Horse: Archeology, Identity, and 'Heritage,'" Winter 1999, 65: 42-62.

 

Philip Schwyzer, "Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland," Summer 2006, 95: 1-26.

 

Yuri Slezkine, "Naturalist Versus the Nation: Eighteenth-Century Russian Scholars Confront Ethnic Diversity," Summer 1994, 47: 170-95.

 

Tyler Stovall, "National Identity and Shifting Imperial Frontiers: Whiteness and the Exclusion of Colonial Labor After World War I," Fall 2003, 84: 52-72.

 

Sandra Tomc, "Restyling an Old World: Nathaniel Parker Willis and Metropolitan Fashion in the Antebellum United States," Winter 2004, 85: 98-124.

 

Heather Wiebe, "Benjamin Britten: the 'National Faith,' and the Animation of History in 1950s England," Winter 2006, 93: 76-105.

 

Ben Xu, "Chinese Populist Nationalism: Its Intellectual Politics and Moral Dilemma," Fall 2001, 76: 120-40.

 

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