Postcolonial Denmark: Nation Narration in a Crisis Ridden Europe - Lars Jensen

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Résumé :

This book adopts a global approach to analysing Danish nationhood in the current context of a Europe paralysed by crises. Focusing on the global strands which have produced understandings of national selfhood as a consequence of a series of historical and contemporary global encounters, it calls for the production of narratives which better capture how European nations, including Denmark, are shaped by narratives that cannot be understood in (national) isolation, but are contingent on ideas about the nation's globality. In historical terms, this entails examining how colonialism shaped national self-perceptions...

Biographie:

Lars Jensen is Associate Professor at Cultural Encounters, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University. He is the author of Beyond Britain. Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies, and main editor of Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. He has co-edited two volumes on the Postcolonial Nordic, Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond. At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, and Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region. Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities. He is also co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures Continental Europe and its Empires.