PERENNIAL EMPIRE

 

Chantal Zabus and Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, eds.

 

TABLE OF CONTENT

 

Preface: "Everlasting Leviathans" (C. ZABUS - S. NAGY-ZEKMI)

 

I. POST-WAR REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE

 

“Post-imperial Rural Histories and ‘Ironic Nostalgia’ in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn” 

Lucienne LOH  (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

 

“Writer’s Block and Empire in Barry Unsworth’s Sugar and Rum

Jennifer P. NESBITT (Penn State U, York)

 

“The Breadcrumb Trail: Nineteenth-Century Child Hauntings in the Contemporary Novels of Peter Rushforth and Shirley Geok-Liu Lim”

Anca VLASOPOLOS  (Wayne State University)

 

“Disordered Identities: Virginia Woolf, Jacques Derrida and the Problem the “I” of Empire”

Andrea YATES (University of Rhode Island)

 

II. “EXPERIMENTAL NATIONS” GLOBALIZED

 

“Nationless Authors and Literature without Nations: Francophone Writing of the Maghreb”

Valerie ORLANDO, (University of Maryland)

 

“Between Empires: Portuguese Immigrants and their Descen(dan)ts in France”

Martine FERNANDES (University of South Florida)

 

“The Future of an Ethics of Difference: The Other After Hardt and Negri’s Empire

Zahi ZALLOUA, (Whitman College)

 

“White Nation Fantasy and the Lingering Empire. The Imperialistic Streak in Christopher Koch’s Fiction”

Jean Françis VERNAY (Université Toulouse-Le Mirail)

  

III. HALF OF EMPIRE: THE ‘OTHER’ AMERICA

 

Light Colonialism in the Caribbean in the Context of Global Empire Building”

Kristian VAN HAESEDONCK (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

 

“Exhibiting Puerto Rico’s Colonial Status Through Fiction”

Asima F. X. SAAD MAURA (Haverford College)

 

“New Empire Building in Central America”

Ana Patricia RODRIGUEZ (University of Maryland)

 

IV. QUEERING EMPIRE

 

“Perpetual War and Imperial Potentiality:  From Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo to the War on Terrorism”

Patrick MULLEN, (Northeastern University)

 

 “The Role of Sexuality in Nation Building: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage”

John HAWLEY (Santa Clara University)

 

“The United States of Empire and the Coalition of the Willing Queer”

Paul ALLATSON (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

 

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