{"product_id":"pynchons-postnational-imagination-sascha-pohlmann-9783825357719","title":"Pynchon's Postnational Imagination","description":"'Pynchon's Postnational Imagination' is the first monograph to critically analyze Thomas Pynchon's novels with regard to issues of nations, nationality, national identity, nationalism, and the very idea of the national: nation-ness. It argues that Pynchon's fiction can best be conceptualized as \"postnational\", that is, as working towards dismantling the hegemony of nation-ness as a metanarrative. The study seeks to establish a critical theory of postnationalism that helps conceptualize this complex literary practice.It combines established theories of nation-ness with recent attempts to think beyond the nation, drawing on the ideas of Renan, Gellner and Anderson as well as Habermas, Albrow, Appadurai, and Hardt and Negri in order to offer a viable postnational theory that is as pertinent to literary studies as to other fields. It presents various postnational strategies, most notably that of parageography, to show in detailed critical readings of 'Gravity's Rainbow' (1973) and 'Mason \u0026amp; Dixon' (1997) that Pynchon's novels both exemplify and describe a postnational imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sascha Pohlmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3825357716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783825357719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sascha Pohlmann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48487076528383,"sku":"9783825357719","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1536b3a9-2364-4044-9d64-4ea440624297.jpg?v=1778058195","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pynchons-postnational-imagination-sascha-pohlmann-9783825357719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}