| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- England.
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Cosmopolitanism -- England.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nava, Mica. Visceral cosmopolitanism : gender, culture and the normalisation of difference. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007 xii, 209 pages 9781845202422 (DLC) 2007020714 |
| ISBN |
9781845202422 |
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9781845202439 |
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9781847883438 (electronic bk.) |
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