Contemporary Literature - Testing Transnationalism - 0 views
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Bill Brydon on 18 Jun 11The critical fortunes of "the transnational" have swelled in recent years, as it has made its way from disciplinary buzzword to become the banner for a genuinely rigorous and self-reflexive kind of geopolitical criticism. Along that path to widespread recognition and application, transnationalism has confronted its own procedural hurdles as an interpretive and epistemological framework, conceding potential frictions within its contentions-frictions implicit in decisions about which identifications and experiences might legitimately be celebrated or resisted. It's a state of affairs neatly summarized by Sallie Westwood and Annie Phizacklea, who point out that we have "[o]n the one hand the continuing importance of the nation and the emotional attachments invested in it, and on the other hand those processes such as cross-border migration which are transnational in form."