{"id":3448,"date":"2009-11-25T02:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T02:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2013-02-08T02:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:18:17","slug":"visceral-cosmopolitanism-gender-culture-and-the-normalisation-of-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3448","title":{"rendered":"Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Berg Publishers<\/a>
\nSeptember 2007
\n224 pages, bibliog., index
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781845202439
\nHardback ISBN: 9781845202422
\nEbook ISBN: 9781847883438<\/p>\n

Mica Nava<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of East London<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism<\/a> by exploring everyday English urban cosmopolitanism and foregrounding the gendered, imaginative and empathetic aspects of positive engagement with cultural and racial difference.<\/p>\n

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 <\/strong>Selfridges<\/strong><\/a> before the first world war; relationships between white English women and ‘other’ men\u2014Jews and black <\/strong>GI<\/strong><\/a>s\u2014during 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.<\/strong> In the final chapter, the author draws on her own complex family history to illustrate the contemporary cosmopolitan London experience.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

List of figures
\nAcknowledgements<\/p>\n

I. INTRODUCTION<\/strong>
\nChapter 1 – Cosmopolitanism, Everyday Culture and Structures of Feeling: The Intellectual Framework of the Book<\/p>\n

II. COSMOPOLITANISM AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE 1910s-1920s
\n<\/strong>Chapter 2 – The Allure of Difference: Selfridges, the Russian Ballet and the Tango
\nChapter 3 – ‘The Big Shop Controversy’: Ideological Communities and the Chesterton-Selfridge Dispute<\/p>\n

III. DIFFERENCE AND DESIRE IN 1930s-1940s<\/strong>
\nChapter 4 – The Unconscious and Others: Inclusivity, Jews and the Eroticisation of Difference
\nChapter 5 – White Women and Black Men: The Negro as Signifier of Modernity in Wartime Britain<\/strong><\/p>\n

IV. COSMOPOLITANISM IN POSTCOLONIAL BRITAIN<\/strong>
\nChapter 6 – Thinking Internationally, Thinking Sexually: Race in Postwar Fiction, Film and Social Science
\nChapter 7 – Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed: Romance, Race and the Reconfiguration of the Nation<\/p>\n

V. CONCLUSION: ACTUALLY EXISTING COSMOPOLITANISM
\nChapter 8 – A Love Song to our Mongrel Selves: Cosmopolitan Habitus and the Ordinariness of Difference<\/p>\n

Bibliography
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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