Visceral cosmopolitanism gender, culture and the normalisation of difference / Mica Nava.

Author/creator Nava, Mica
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg,
Descriptionxii, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 1. Cosmopolitanism, everyday culture and structures of feeling : the intellectual framework of the book -- 2. The allure of difference: Selfridges, the Russian ballet and the tango -- 3. 'The big shop controversy': ideological communities and the Chesterton-Selfridge dispute -- 4. The unconscious and others: inclusivity, Jews and the eroticisation of difference -- 5. White women and black men : the Negro as signifier of modernity in wartime Britain -- 6. Thinking internationally, thinking sexually: race in postwar fiction, film and social science -- 7. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed: romance, race and the reconfiguration of the nation -- 8. A love song to our mongrel selves: cosmopolitan habitus and the ordinariness of difference.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-200) and index.
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LCCN 2007020714
ISBN9781845202422
ISBN1845202422
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