Offshore cosmopolitanism: reading the nation in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled, Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Following Ronen Palan’s The Offshore World (2003) Connell understands the central feature of the offshore as the‘bifurcation of the nation state’: the state splits itself in two by continuing to govern those areas that remain easy to legislate while surrendering to the international realm those whic...
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Language: | English |
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The Open University
2013-08-01
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Series: | The Open Arts Journal |
Online Access: | http://openartsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/oaj_issue1_connell.pdf |