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Visceral Cosmopolitanism - Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference (Paperback)
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Visceral Cosmopolitanism - Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference (Paperback)
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Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant
contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday
English urban cosmopolitanism and foregrounding the gendered,
imaginative and empathetic aspects of positive engagement with
cultural and racial difference. By looking at a wide range of
texts, events and biographical narratives, she traces
cosmopolitanism from its marginal status at the beginning of the
twentieth century to its relative normalisation today. Case studies
include the promotion of cosmopolitanism by Selfridges before the
first world war; relationships between white English women and
'other' men -- Jews and black GIs -- during the 1930s and 1940s;
literary, cinematic and social science representations of migrants
in postcolonial Britain; and Diana and Dodi's interracial romance
in the 1990s. In the final chapter, the author draws on her own
complex family history to illustrate the contemporary cosmopolitan
London experience.Scholars have tended to ignore the oppositional
cultures of antiracism and social inclusivity. This groundbreaking
study redresses this imbalance and offers a sophisticated account
of the uneven history of vernacular cosmopolitanism.
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