WWU Münster, MA “National & Transnational Studies” – Introductory Reading List (version: 22 Oct.. 2016)
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WWU Münster
MA National and Transnational Studies:
Literature – Culture – Language
Introductory reading list
for
Semester 1 & 2
and as suggestions for selected background reading for later courses and projects
(Version from 22 October 2016)
!! unless otherwise stated, shelfmarks (Signaturen) refer to Engl. Dept. library!!
Even texts for which this list does not give a shelfmark may be available in Münster libraries. When in doubt, please
refer to the library catalogues.
Texts marked with an asterisk (*) are recommended as particularly essential and are relevant for the “Independent
Study” section of Research Module I (semester 1 & 2).
European beginnings; major aspects of the European history of nationhood;
major western theories of the nation; and general introductions
*Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London 1983.
PAA 575:3.
* Armstrong, John A. Nations before Nationalism. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P 1982. Ordered for MS libraries.
Bell, David. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. Cambridge MA: Harvard University
Press, 2007.
Bjørn, Claus, et al., eds. Nations, Nationalism and Patriotism in the European Past. Copenhagen: Academic P 1994.
Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Historical and contemporary focus.
* Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford 1983. ULB Freihand: 3D 74788
Greenfield, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Grosby, Steven Elliott. Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP 2006. Eng. dept. libr. EW BJ
2005:3
Harris, Erika. Nationalism: Theories and Cases. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2009
Hirschi, Caspar. The Origins of Nationalism: An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2011.
* Hobsbawm, Eric. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: CUP 1992 (1983?).
ZB Soz.Wiss. Scharnhorststr. 103-109, Magazin 1: MC 7100/60(2 & 2a).
Historisches Seminar; Domplatz 20-22 ; E 14,14
ULB Freihandmagazin 3D 70678
Inst.f. Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Domplatz 20-22 ; B 142
* --------; & Terence Ranger (ed). The Invention of Tradition: A Study in its Origin and Background. Cambridge 1983.
ZB Soz.Wiss. Scharnhorststr. 103-109, Magazin 4 ; MS 1212/92
ULB Freihandmagazin im UG ; 3F 48794 & 3F 53477 & 3G 95671
Sem. f. Volkskunde, Europäische Ethnologie Scharnhorststr. 100 ; Y i 545
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Historisches Seminar; Domplatz 20-22 ; E 122,10
Institut für Didaktik der Geschichte Domplatz 23 - 23a ; N 170 - 1
Inst.f. Ethnologie Studtstraße 21 ; G-his 14
Inst.f. Ägyptol. u. Koptologie Schlaunstr. 2 ; A-E 4 ; Fotokopie
* Hutchinson, John. The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism. London: Allen Unwin 1987. Dept libr. social science,
Magazin 2: MG 44030/3
* ---------; & Anthony D. Smith (ed). Nationalism, Oxford Readers, Oxford et al.: OUP 1994. ZB Soz.Wiss.
Scharnhorststr.103-109 ; Magazin 4 ; MS 4700/13
* -----, &Anthony D. Smith, eds. Ethnicity. Oxford Readers. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. E.g. Dept. library Sozialwiss.:
MS 3300/60
James, Paul. Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community. London: Sage 1996. Not in MS, out of
print, thus could not be bought for Muenster libraries, but available via German interlibrary loan.
Kamenka, Eugene. “Political Nationalism: The Evolution of an Idea.” Kamenka (ed), Nationalism: The Nature and
Evolution of an Idea, Canberra: Australia National UP 1973, 2–20.
Kedourie, Eli. Nationalism. New York: Praeger 1960.
Kohn, Hans. The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in its Origins and Background. New York 1945.
ULB Freihandmagazin im UG ; 3E 71984
German translations in: ULB Freihandmagazin im UG ; 3E 84635
ULB Münster: 51 91
ZB Soz.Wiss. Scharnhorststr.103-109, Magazin 4: MS 4700/17
FB-Biblioth. Wirtschaftswiss. Universitätsstr. 14-16; C I 192
Institut für Didaktik der Geschichte Domplatz 23; L 160 - 39
Inst. Öff. Recht und Pol. Universitätsstr. 14-16 ; W III 8
Inst. Judaicum Delitzschianum Wilmergasse 1 ; Na 19 K 79
McCrone, David. The Sociology of Nationalism. London: Routledge 1998. Not in Münster
* Renan, Ernest. “Qu’ est-ce qu’une nation?” Lecture, 11th March 1882, Sorbonne, Paris. Oeuvres Complètes, Paris
1947–1961, vol. 1, 887–907. Transl. (by Martin Thom) as “What is a Nation?”, in: Homi K. Bhabha (ed),
Nation and Narration, London & New York: Routledge 1990, 8–22.
* Seton–Watson, Hugh. Nations and States: An Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism.
London: Methuen 1977. ULB Freihandmagazin 3G 56056
* Smith, Anthony D. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. ULB Freihandmagazin 3D 51332
-----. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism.London 1998.
* -----. Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History (Key Concepts). Cambridge: Polity, 2002. Dept. library Eastern
European History: 1 d 151
Spencer, Philip; & Howard Wollman, Nationalism: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage 2002.
(Post)Colonial perspectives on the nation and its problems
* Ahmad, Aijaz. “Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory.” Social Text (1987). Repr. in Diana
Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.:
Routledge 2000, text 4.8.
* Bhabha, Homi K. (ed), Nation and Narration, London & New York: Routledge 1990.
* ------. “Introduction: Narrating the Nation.” Ibid., 1–7.
* ------. “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation.” Ibid., 291–322. (Later also repr. in
Bhabha, The Location of Culture, 1994, as chapter 8)
* Cabral, Amilcar. “National Liberation and Culture.” Cabral, Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings, New York &
London: Monthly Review P 1979. Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in
Literary and Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 4.2.
* Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? London: Zed 1986. Ordered
for MS libraries.
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-----. “Whose Imagined Communities?” Abbas et al (ed). Internationalising Cultural Studies: An Anthology. 2005.
Constantino, Renato. “Nationalism and the Third World.” The Nationalist Alternative Quezon City: Foundation for
Nationalist Studies, 1979. Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and
Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 4.3
Davidson, Basil. The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State. EnglSem MS
* Fanon, F. “On National Culture.” The Wretched of the Earth.
Hechter, Michael. Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536–1966. International
Library of Sociology. London & Henley-on-Thames: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975.
Jameson, Fredric. “A Brief Response” (to Aijaz Ahmad’s “Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory,”
see above). Social Text (1987). Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and
Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 4.9.
Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed 1986.
Lazarus, N. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World. PAA 575: 8.
Mudimbe (ed). Nations, Identities, Cultures. Durham & London: Duke UP 1997. PAA 575: 9.
Murray, Stuart (ed). Not on any Map: Essays on Postcoloniality and Cultural Nationalism. U of Exeter P 1997. PAA
575: 5.
Ngugi, Decolonizing the Mind. 1986.
The nation in (post)colonial literature and culture
Boehmer, Elleke. Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation. Manchester UP 2005.
----. Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890–1920: Resistance in Interaction. OUP.
Chinweizu; Onwuchekwa Jemie; & Ihechukwu Madubuike. Towards the Decolonisation of African Literature. Enugu
(Nigeria): Fourth Dimension 1980. Repr. Washington: Howard UP 1983. CoL 8, 75.1.
Chrisman, Laura. “Nationalism and Postcolonial Studies.” Neil Lazarus (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Postcolo-
nial Literary Studies, Cambridge: CUP 2004, 183–198.
Gui, Weihsin. National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics: Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment.
Columbus: Ohio State UP 2013.
Innes, C.L. “Forging the Consciousness of their Race’: Nationalist Writers.” Bruce King (ed), New Nationalism & Post-
Colonial Literatures: An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon 1996, 120–139.
------. “Virgin Territories and Motherlands: Colonial and Nationalist Representations of Africa and Ireland.” Feminist
Review 47 (1994), 1–14.
King, Bruce (ed), New Nationalism & Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon 1996, 120–139.
Kumar, T. Vijay; Meenakshi Mukherjee; Harish Trivedi; & C. Vijayasree. The Nation across the World: Postcolonial
Literary Representations. OUP 2007.
Murray, Stuart (ed). Not on any Map: Essays on Postcoloniality and Cultural Nationalism. Exeter UP 1997.
Sivanandan, Tamara. “Anticolonialism, National Liberation, and Postcolonial Nation Formation.” Neil Lazarus (ed),
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, Cambridge: CUP 2004, 41–65.
Stateless Nations, regionalism, ethnonationalism and secessionism -- general theory & miscellaneous case studies
Cleary, Joe. Literature, Partition and the Nation-state: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine.
Cambridge: CUP 2002
Connor, Walter. Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding. Princeton 1994.
Esman, Milton (ed). Ethnic Conflict in the Western World. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP 1977. ULB Münster: Freihand
3 G 55847. On ethnonationalism in general, and case studies on Basques, Belgium, France & Britanny,
Quebec, Ulster, Scotland, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Yugoslavia.
Keating, Michael. Nations against the State: The New Politics of Nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland.
London: Palgrave 2001. Not MS
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Lustick, Ian. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-
Gaza, Ithaca: Cornell UP 1993.
MacClancy, Jeremy. Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena. 2007
Nation and Gender
* Anthias, Floya; & Nira Yuval-Davis (ed). Woman – Nation – State. Basingstoke et al.: Macmillan 1989. ZB Soz.Wiss.
Scharnhorststr. 103-109; Magazin 4 ; MS 3000/649
Boehmer, Elleke. Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation. Manchester UP 2005. PAA 575:
13
Kandiyoti, Deniz. “Identity and its Discontents: Women and the Nation,” Millennium Journal of International Studies
20.3 (1991), repr. in Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Laura Chrisman & Patrick
Williams (New York: Columbia UP, 1994): 376--91.
Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed 1986.
* McClintock, Anne. “No Longer in a Future Heaven: Gender, Race, and Nationalism.” McClintock, Aamir Mufti &
Ella Shohat (ed), Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P 1997, 89–112. Ordered for MS libraries.
Parker, Andrew; Mary Russo; Doris Sommer & Patricia Yeager (ed). Nationalisms and Sexualities. London: Routledge
1992. LIT AS 1992: 11
Ranchod-Nilsson, Sita; & Mary Ann Tétreault (ed). Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? London:
Routledge 2000.
Shohat, Ella. “Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema.” Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Lega-
cies, Democratic Futures, ed. M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty, New York & London: Rout-
ledge 1997. Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 5
vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 12.6
EU etc.
Berglund, Sten et al. (ed). The making of the European Union: Foundations, Institutions and Future Trends.
Cheltenham: Elgar 2006.
Blanke, Hermann-Josef (ed.). Governing Europe under a Constitution. Berlin et al.: Springer 2006.
Dinan, Desmond. Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan 2005.
Friedman, Rebecca; & Markus Thiel (ed). European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging.
Farnham: Ashgate 2012.
Menon, Andand et al. From the Nation state to Europe? New York et al.: Oxford UP 2001.
Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation State. Routledge, 2nd
rev. ed. 1999. Excerpts
Pinder, John and Simon Usherwood. The European Union: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP. Fully
updated new ed. 2007.
ZB Sozialwiss. (Magazin 1) EDZ 1/2/100
Wallace, W. “Rescue or Retreat? The Nation State in Western Europe, 1945–1993.” J. Dunn (ed), Contemporary Crisis
of the Nation State? Oxford: Blackwell 1995, 52–76.
The nation’s relationship to globalisation, migration & diaspora; as well as transnationalism -- general theories
* Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P 1996.
PAA 500: Appa 1
* -----“Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Public Culture 2 (1990). Repr. in Diana Brydon
(ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge
2000, text 11.4
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Basch, Linda; Cristina Blanc-Szanton1; & Nina Glick Schiller. “Towards a Definition of Transnationalism: Introductory
Remarks and Research Questions.” Basch, Blanc-Szanton & Glick Schiller (ed), Towards a Transnational Per-
spective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered, Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences, vol. 645; New York: New York Academy of Sciences 1992, ix–xiv.
-----; Cristina Blanc-Szanton; & Nina Glick Schiller. “Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understand-
ing Migration.” Basch, Blanc-Szanton & Glick Schiller (ed), Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migra-
tion: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
vol. 645; New York: New York Academy of Sciences 1992, 1–24.
-----, Nina Glick Schiller, Christina Szanton-Blanc (ed). Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race,
Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. NY: NY Academy of Sciences 1992.
* ------- Cristina Szanton Blanc; & Nina Glick Schiller. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Global Predica-
ments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Amsterdam et al.: Gordon & Breach 1994, 4th
ed. 1997. PAA
200: 31. (mainly using the examples of US & Caribbean, but also illustrates general theories of transnat).
Especially recommended: 49–54, 56 f, 92 f, 95–97, 143, 269–292.
* Beck, Ulrich. Was ist Globalisierung? Irrtümer des Globalismus – Antworten auf Globalisierung. Edition Zweite
Moderne. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp 1997. ULB Lehrbuchsammlung: OEK 2.1:Bec
----- (ed). Politik der Globalisierung. Edition Zweite Moderne. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp 1997.
Brennan, Timothy. At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now. Convergences: Inventories of the Present. Cambridge
MA & London: Harvard UP 1997. PAA 500: Bren 1. Especially recommended: 9, 69, 71, 75, 123–140,
151 f, 154 f, 156–158, 161 f, 190, 307–311, 316 f (& the respective notes)
* Brah, Avtar. Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. London & New York: Routledge 1996. PAA 500:
Brah 1
Braziel, Jana Evans. Diaspora: An Introduction. Oxford et al.: Blackwell 2008
-----; & Anita Mannur (ed), Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell 2003.
Cheah et al. (ed). Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation. Minneapolis & London: U of Minnesota P
1998. PAA 575: 10
Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. London: UCL Press 1997. 2nd ed. London & New York: Routledge
2008.
Dirlik, Arif. “The Global in the Local.” Wimal Dissayanake & Rob Wilson (ed), Global/Local: Cultural Production
and the Transnational Imaginary. Durham NC: Duke UP 1996.
Dissayanake, Wimal; & Rob Wilson (ed), Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary.
Durham NC: Duke UP 1996.
* Featherstone, Mike (ed). Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity. London: Sage 1990. E.g. Dept.
library Sozialwissenschaften, Magazin 4: MR 7100/94B
-----; J. Lash & R. Robertson (ed). Global Modernities. London: Sage 1997.
Frankenberg, Ruth; & Lata Mani. “Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, Postcoloniality and the Politics of Location.”
Cultural Studies 7.2 (1993). Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and
Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 11.6.
Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo; & Michael Peter Smith (ed). Transnationalism from Below. Comparative Urban & Community
Research, vol. 6. New Brunswick NJ & London: Transaction 1998. ULB 3 F 76338.
Halikiopoulou, Daphne; & Sophia Vasilopoulou (ed). Nationalism and Globalisation: Conflicting or Contemporary?
New York: Routledge 2011.
* Hall, Stuart. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” Lecture, State University of New York at Bing-
hamton, 31 March 1989. Publ. in Anthony D. King (ed), Culture, Globalization and the World-System:
Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, London et al.: Macmillan 1991, 19–39. E.g.
Dept. library Erziehungswiss. ERZ XB10 505A
---------. “Conclusion: The Multi-Cultural Question.” Barnor Hesse (ed), Unsettled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas,
Entanglements, ‘Transruptions’, London & New York: Zed 2000, 209–241, here 217--222, 228--232, 236--
238 (+ notes & bibliog.), possibly also 223--227..
1 Later she changed her last name to “Szanton Blanc.”
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* Hannerz, Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London & New York: Routledge 1996.
Held et al. Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. Stanford CA: Stanford UP 1999. PAA 200: 32
Dept.library Engl. Sem.
Hesse, Barnor. “Introduction: Un/Settled Multiculturalisms.” Hesse (ed), Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas,
Entanglements, ‘Transruptions’, London & New York: Zed 2000, 1–30. Erziehungswiss. Bispinghof 9-14
Haus E: XB4 926a. On diaspora/ multiculturalism, postcoloniality & the UK nation
Khagram, Sanjeev; & Peggy Levitt. The Transnational Studies Reader. London & New York: Routledge 2007
King, Anthony D. (ed). Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation
of Identity. London et al.: Macmillan 1991.
Lahav & Messina. The Migration Reader. 2006. MS
Lloyd, David. “Ethnic Cultures, Minority Discourses and the State.” Francis Barker, Peter Hulme & Margaret Iversen
(ed), Colonial Discourse, Post-Colonial Theory, Manchester: Manchester UP 1994. E.g. on multiculturalism
and commodification.
Mann, Michael. “Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?” Review of International Political
Economy 4.3 (1997), 472–479.
* Miyoshi, Masako. “A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State.”
Critical Inquiry 19.4 (1993), 726–751.
Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham NC & London: Duke UP 1999.
Ortiz, Fernando. “On the Social Phenomenon of 'Transculturation' and Its Importance in Cuba.” Cuban Counterpoint:
Tobacco and Sugar, Durham: Duke UP 1995. Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts
in Literary and Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 11.1
Pratt, Mary Louise. “Introduction: Criticism in the Contact Zone.” Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and
Transculturation, London & New York: Routledge 1992. Repr. in Diana Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism:
Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.: Routledge 2000, text 12.2.
* Robertson, Roland. Globalisation: Social Theory and Global Culture. London: Sage 1992. E.g. Dept. library
Sozialwiss. MR 7100/91
* -----. “Globalisation or Glocalisation.” Journal of International Communication 1 (1994), 33–52.
-----. “Glocalisation: Time – Space and Homogeneity / Heterogeneity.” Featherstone et al. (ed), Global Modernities,
London: Sage 1997.
Sassen, Saskia. Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. NY: Columbia UP 1996
Schnapper, Dominique. “From the Nation-State to the Transnational World: On the Meaning and Usefulness if
Diaspora as a Concept.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8.3 (1999), 225–254.
Steger, Manfred B. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP. 2nd ed. 2009.
ULB (Freihandmagazin) 3F88140
Tölölian, Khachig. “The Nation State and its Others: In lieu of a Preface.” Diaspora 1.1 (1991), 3--7
Vertovec, Steven. Transnationalism. London & New York: Routledge 2009.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. “Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System.” Global Culture:
Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, ed. Mike Featherstone, London: Sage 1990. Repr. in Diana
Brydon (ed), Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 5 vols., London et al.:
Routledge 2000, text 11.5.
Welz, Gisela. “Multiple Modernities – The Transnationalization of Cultures.” Transcultural English Studies, ed. Sissy
Helff & Frank Schulze–Engler, Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English, vol.
102, ASNEL papers 12, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2009, 37–57.
On anthropology, transculturalism, transnationalism and globalisation.
A future for nationalism? Redefinitions as a way out of the nation’s crisis? And: civic vs. ethnic nationalism
* Appadurai, A. “Patriotism and its Futures.” Abbas et al (ed). Internationalising Cultural Studies: An Anthology. 2005.
Brubaker, Rogers. “The Manichean Myth: Rethinking the Distinction between ‘Civic’ and ‘Ethnic’ Nationalism,”
Hanspeter Kriesi et al. (ed), Nation and National Identity: The European Experience in Perspective, Zurich:
Ruegger 1999, 55--71
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* Nairn, Tom. “Breakwaters of 2000: From Ethnic to Civic Nationalism.” New Left Review 214 (1995), 91–103.
Varieties of English
Mesthrie, Rajend; Rakesh M. Bhatt. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP 2008. ULB: Freihand 3F 78133; EnglSem: 4.0 Mest 2008
Schneider, Edgar W. Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2007. [of special
interest in connection with the development of new national varieties of English] ULB: Freihand 3K 3368,
Lehrbuchsamml. ANG 1: Schne; EnglSem: 4.0 Schn 2007
Pidgins and Creoles
Velupillai, Viveka. Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2015. ULB: Freihand 3K 57580;
EnglSem: 4.0 Velu 2015
Sociolinguistics
Blommaert, Jan. Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity. Bristol:
Multilingual Matters 2013. ULB: 3 L 11233
Coulmas, Florian. Writing and Society: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2013. EnglSem: 12.0 Coul 2013
Coupland, Nicolas. Style: Language Variation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2007. ULB: Freihand 3K
14193; EnglSem: 12.0 Coup 2007
Fought, Carmen. Language and Ethnicity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2010. ULB: Freihand 3F 88384
Garrett, Peter. Attitudes to Language. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2010. ULB: Freihand 3F 91229; EnglSem: 12.0 Garr
2010
Lim, Lisa; & Umberto Ansaldo. Languages in Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2016. EnglSem: 12.0 Lim 2016
Mesthrie, Rajend, ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2011. ULB: Freihand
3K 40040; EnglSem: 12.0 Mest 2011
Piller, Ingrid. Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford UP
2016. EnglSem: AL – 5.68
Stavans, Anat. Multilingualism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2015. EnglSem: 12.1 Stav 2015
Language policy and language planning
Spolsky, Bernard, ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2012. ULB: Freihand
3K 40581
———. Language Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2004. EnglSem: 12.0 Spol 2004; General Linguistics Dept.: Dp
344
Wright, Sue. Language Policy and Language Planning: From Nationalism to Globalisation. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2nd
ed 2016. ULB: Freihand 3L 13094; EnglSem: 12.0 Wrig 2016
Language and identity, including national identity
Edwards, John. Language and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2009. ULB: Freihand 3F 88376; German Dept.: Sp
78954, Sp 78901/2
Joseph, John Earl. Language and Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2004. ULB: Freihand 3F 88450
Llamas, Carmen; & Dominic Watt, eds. Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2010. ULB: Freihand 3K
32767; German Dept.: Sp 78901/3
Omoniyi, Tope; & Goodith White, eds. The Sociolinguistics of Identity. London: Continuum 2010. ULB: Freihand 3K
28095
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Language and globalization
Blommaert, Jan. The Sociolinguistics of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2010. ULB: Freihand 3K 27461:
EnglSem: 12.0 Blom 2010
Coupland, Nikolas. The Handbook of Language and Globalization. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2010. EnglSem: 0.1
Coup 2010
Language and transculturalism
Alim, H. Samy; Awad Ibrahim; & Alastair Pennycook, eds. Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth
Identities, and the Politics of Language. New York: Routledge 2008. EnglSem: 12.0 Alim 2009
Pennycook, Alastair. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. London: Routledge 2007. ULB: Freihand 3K 5964
Language and migration
Duchêne, Alexandre; Melissa Moyer; & Celia Roberts. Language, Migration and Social Inequalities: A Critical
Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work. Bristol: Multilingual Matters 2013. EnglSem: 12.0 Duch
2013
Regan, Vera; Chloé Diskin; & Jennifer Martyn, eds. Language, Identity and Migration: Voices from Transnational
Speakers and Communities. Oxford: Lang 2016. ULB: Freihand 3K 65916
Other useful texts
* Brubaker, Rogers; & Frederick Cooper. “Beyond ‘Identity.’” Theory and Society 29 (2000): 1-47.
Butler, Judith; & Gayatri Chakravorty Spvak, Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging. London:
Seagull 2007.
Cornell, Stephen, and Douglas Hartmann. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. Thousand Oaks:
Pine Forge Press, 1998. Theory and case studies; contemporary focus.
Dahbour, Omar, and Micheline R. Ishay, eds. The Nationalism Reader. Amherst: Humanity Books, 1995.
Hearn, Jonathan. Rethinking Nationalism: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
McCrone, David. The Sociology of Nationalism: Tomorrow’s Ancestors. London: Routledge 1998.
Stepan, Alfred: Juan J. Linz, & Yogendra Yadav. “The Rise of ‘State-Nations.’” Journal of Democracies 21 (2010).
----. Craftng State-Nations: India and other Multinational Democracies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 2011.
II. Case Studies
1) UK & the British Isles
a) Rise of Britishness
Bradshaw, Brendan; & John Morrill (ed), The British Problem, c. 1534–1707: State Formation in the Atlantic
Archipelago. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1996.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837. New Haven CT & London: Yale UP 1992. Repr. London et al.:
Pimlico 1994. Rev. ed. 2008.
Helgerson, Richard. Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England. Chicago IL: U of Chicago P 1992.
Kumar, Krishan. The Making of English National Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2003, ch 6.
Samuel, Raphael (ed). Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity. London: Routledge 1989.
Sorensen, Janet. The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2000. LIT
CL 2000:1. Shows how British nation-building efforts impacted on perceptions of the English language (&
on the standardisation of the language). Ch. 2 (on Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary from 1755) is particularly
relevant (e.g. concerning Bhabha’s notion of a conflict between pedagogic and performative impulses of
nationalist discourse).
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Extra reading: Nationhood and the construction of Britishness in literature & culture
Corbett, Mary Jean. Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870. Cambridge: CUP 2000
Davis Leith. Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707–1832. Stanford CA: Stan-
ford UP; & Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1998. ULB Freihand H 74596
Parrinder, Patrick. Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day. OUP 2006. LIT DC
2006:1.
Pittock, Murray G.H. Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685–1789, Basing-
stoke: Penguin 1997. Arbeitsstelle f.d.Neuere Geschichte Grossbritanniens Domplatz 20-22 ; X-R-A 550
Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Literature in History series.
Princeton NJ: Princeton UP 1997.
b) Recent challenges to, and revisions of, Britishness: Devolution, multiculturalism, etc.
* Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain. London: Penguin 2000. ZB
Sozialwissenschaften, 4. Magazin, MS 1212/110
Aughey, Arthur. Nationalism, Devolution, and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State. London: Pluto 2001. Not
MS
-------. The Politics of Englishness. Manchester UP 2007. (Cultural Studies)
Curtice, J.; & A. Heath. “Is the English Lion about to Roar? National Identity after Devolution.” R. Jowell et al. (ed),
Focusing on Diversity: British Social Attitudes: The 17th
Report, London: Sage 2000.
Curtis, Tony. Wales: The Imagined Nation. Bridgend: Poetry Wales 1986.
Fryer. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain. EnglSem MS
* Gilroy, Paul. There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Politics of Race and Nation. First publ. 1987. Repr.
London & New York: Routledge 2002. PBI 500:4. Especially pp.: xxiii § 3–xxiv § 1, xxv§2–xxvi, xxix§2,
xxxim–xxxii§1, xxxvi§1, xxxviii f, 43-47, 64, 78§2-83, 184, 345–362
* -----. After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? Abingdon & New York: Routledge 2004, repr. 2006.
PBI 500: 3
-----. “Multiculture, Double Consciousness and the ‘War on Terror.’” Patterns of Prejudice 39.4 (2005), 431–443.
Summarises many points from After Empire, useful on both US & UK national identity & racial minorities,
as well as UK devolution & postcol.)
Hesse, Barnor. “Introduction: Un/Settled Multiculturalisms.” Hesse (ed), Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas,
Entanglements, ‘Transruptions’, London & New York: Zed 2000, 1–30, excerpts: 1–15, 19 f, 25–30.
Discusses relation between loss of empire, post(-)colonialism, diaspora, multiculturalism, anxieties about
national identity, partly in more general terms and partly with specific reference to the UK (eg through
survey from the mid-20th century to the present)
Innes, C.L. “Forging the Consciousness of their Race’: Nationalist Writers.” Bruce King (ed), New Nationalism & Post-
Colonial Literatures: An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon 1996, 120–139. Incl. remarks on Ireland.
------. “Virgin Territories and Motherlands: Colonial and Nationalist Representations of Africa and Ireland.” Feminist
Review 47 (1994), 1–14.
Keating, Michael. Nations against the State: The New Politics of Nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland.
London: Palgrave 2001. Not MS
Leonard, Mark. Britain TM: Renewing Our Identity. London: Demos 1997.
Marr, Andrew. The Day Britain Died. London: Profile 2000. Not MS
Marquand, “How United is the United Kingdom?” Alexander Grant & Keith Stringer (ed), Uniting the Kingdom? The
Making of British History, London: Routledge 1995, 277–291.
McCrone, David. Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Stateless Nation.
-----. “Unmasking Britannia: The Rise and Fall of British National Identity.” Nations and Nationalism 3–4 (1997), 579–
596. Evtl. in ZB Soz.Wiss. Scharnhorststr.103-109 ; 1.1995 - ; Z/955.
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-----. “Scotland and the Union: Changing Identities in the British State.” David Morley & Kevin Robins (ed), British
Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity, Oxford: OUP 2001, 97–108.
Modood, Tariq. “New Forms of Britishness: Post-immigration Ethnicity and Hybridity in Britain.” R. Lentin (ed). The
Expanding Nation: Towards a Multi-ethnic Ireland. Dublin: Trinity College 1999. Repr. in T. Faist, B.
Peters, & R. Sackman (ed), Identity and Integration, Aldershot: Ashgate 2003.
-------. “Multiculturalism or Britishness: A False Debate.” Connections (London: Commission for Racial Equality),
Winter 2004/5.
* Nairn, Tom. The Break-Up of Britain. 1977. PAA 575: 12. Rev. ed. Edinburgh: Common Ground 2003.
-------. After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland. London: Granta 2000, 2–17.
Redwood, John. The Death of Britain: The UK’s Constitutional Crisis. Basingstole: Macmillan 1999. Not MS
Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands.
Samuel, Raphael (ed). Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity. London: Routledge 1989.
Scott, P.H. “The End of Britishness,” Cencrastus 46 (1993), 7–10. Not MS
Williams, Daniel (ed). Who speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture and Identity. Cardiff: U of Wales P 2003.
Extra reading: Nationhood and the re-/de-construction of Britishness in literature & culture
Dix, Hywel. Postmodern Fiction and the Break-up of Britain. London: Continuum 2010.
Parrinder, Patrick. Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day. OUP 2006. LIT DC
2006:1.
Greiner, N.; & G. Weidle (ed), Cool Britannia: Literarische Selbstvergewisserungen vor der Jahrtausendwende. Trier:
WVT 2006, 225–241.
c) UK & EU
Gowland, David; & Arthur Turner. Reluctant Europeans: Britain and European Integration, 1945–96. Longman 1999.
Jones, Alistair. Britain and the European Union. Politics Study Guides. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2007.
Wall. A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair. OUP 2008.
Young, Hugo. This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair. London: Macmillan 1998.
Young, John W. Britain and European Unity, 1945-1999. British History in Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan; 2nd
rev.
ed. 2000
II) USA
Abbott, Philip. Exceptional America: Newness and National Identity. New York: Lang, 1999. (ZB Soz.Wiss.)
Abramson, Harold H. “Assimilation and Pluralism.” Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Ed. Stephen
Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, and Oscar Handlin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. 150-60.
Axtell, James. Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America. New York: Oxford University Press,
2001.
Barkan, Elliott R. “Race, Religion, and Nationality in American Society: A Model of Ethnicity – From Contact to
Assimilation.” Journal of American History 14.2 (1995): 38-75. (+ comments by Herbert Gans, Lawrence
Fuchs, RJ Vecoli)
Barnard, R. Ed. “Deterritorializing American Culture.” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 23
(July 2006)
Basch, Linda; Cristina Szanton Blanc; & Nina Glick Schiller. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Global
Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Amsterdam et al.: Gordon & Breach 1994, 4th
ed. 1997.
40–45 (but mainly focusing on race, not on that other important element of US nation discourses, civic
nationalism).
* Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America. New York:
Routledge, 1993. AA 1993/4
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Breinig, Helmbrecht, ed. Imaginary (Re)locations: Tradition, Modernity, and the Market in Contemporary Native
American Literature and Culture. Tübingen, 2003.
Citrin, Jack, Ernst B. Haas, Christopher Muste. “Is American Nationalism Changing? Implications for Foreign Policy.”
International Studies Quarterly 38 (1994): 1-31. (explores rival ideologies of American nationalism and their
implications for foreign policy)
Cornell, Stephen, and Douglas Hartmann. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. Thousand Oaks:
Pine Forge Press, 1998. Theory and case studies; contemporary focus, incl. ch. on USA.
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York: Harper
Collins, 1990.
Dennis, Helen May. Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading. London: Routledge, 2007.
Doyle, Don H., and Marco Antonio Pamplona. Eds. Nationalism in the New World. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2006. (esp. Don H. Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona, “Introduction: Americanizing the
Conversation on Nationalism”) (Historisches Seminar; im Erwerbungsvorgang)
Edwards, Brent Hayes. “The Uses of Diaspora.” Social Text 19.1 (2001): 45-73.
Fabre, Genevieve and Klaus Benesch, eds. African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and
Imagination. New York: Rodopi, 2004.
Fender, Stephen, ed. American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror. Keele:Keele UP, 1996.
Fluck, Winfried. “Theories of American Culture (and the Transnational Turn in American Studies.” Transnational
American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck et al. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature
23 (2007): 59-77.
Fuchs, Lawrence H. The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture. Hanover: University Press of
New England, 1990.
Gans, H.J. “Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 2.1
(1979).
* Gates, Henry L. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1988. AA 1988/3
* -----, ed. “Race,” Writing, and Difference. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1986. AYa 30/23
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2002.
* -----. “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans.” The Journal of American History 84.2 (1997): 524-58.
(compares the Crèvecoeurian myth of Americanization to new immigration in the twentieth century)
Gilroy, Paul. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2000. (Engl. Sem.)
* -----. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. AA
1993:3
Gjerde, Jon, ed. Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Gleason, Philip. “American Identity and Americanization.” Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Ed.
Stephen Thernstrom et. al. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1980. 31-58.
Hagenbüchle, Roland et al. Eds. Negotiations of America’s National Identity. 2 V. Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 2000.
Hollinger, David A. “Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the United States.” Noah Pickus (ed), Immigration and
Citizenship in the Twenty-first Century, Lantham MD: Rowman & Littlefield 1998, 85–99.
* -----. “Authority, Solidarity, and the Political Economy of Identity: The Case of the United States.” Diacritics 29.4
(1999): 116-27. (reply to Anderson; claims that “the [neglected] case of the United States might prompt a
slight but productive change in the theorizing of nationalism”)
-----. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. New York: Basic Books, 1995. (Engl. Sem.; Historisches Seminar)
Hones, Sheila and Julia Leyda. “Geographies of American Studies.” American Quartlerly 57 (2005): 1019-32.
Ickstadt, Heinz. “American Studies in an Age of Globalization.” American Quarterly 54 (2002): 543-62.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad,
1876-1917. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
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-----. Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
-----. Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
-----. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1998.
Kallen, Horace M. “Democracy versus the Melting-Pot: A Study of American Nationality” Nation 18, 25 Feb. 1915.
Rpt. in Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader. Ed. Werner Sollors. London: Macmillan, 1996. 67-92.
Kaplan, Amy. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Kazal, Russell A. “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History.”
American Historical Review 100.2 (1995): 437-71.
King, Desmond. Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2000.
Lenz, Günter A. “Towards a Dialogics of International American Cultural Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses,
and Public Culture(s).” Amerikastudien/American Studies 44.1 (1999): 5-23.
Levander, Caroline F. and Robert S. Levine. Hemispheric American Studies. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
2008.
Mackenthun, Gesa. Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature. London: Routledge, 2004.
* Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1992. AR 5346/625
Muthyala, John. “Reworlding America: The Globalization of American Studies.” Cultural Critique 47 (2001): 91-119.
* Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990. New York:
Routledge, 1994. (chapter 4) AYa 50/197
Parrish, Susan Scott. “The ‘Hemispheric Turn’ in Colonial American Studies.” Early American Literature 40:3 (2005):
545-553.
Sielke, Sabine. “Theorizing American Studies: German Interventions into an Ongoing Debate.” Amerikastu-
dien/American Studies 50.1-2: 53-98.
* Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press,
1986. Dept. library Sozialwiss. Magazin 2: MG 70010/3
* ------, ed. “The Invention of Ethnicity.” Introduction. The Invention of Ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press,
1989. ix-xx. AYa 30/22
* Spickard, Paul. Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity. New York:
Routledge, 2007. AYa 80/36
-----, ed. Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World. New York: Routlegde, 2005.
-----, ed. Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, 2004.
* Vecoli, Rudolph J. “The Significance of Immigration in the Formation of an American Identity.” The History Teacher
30.1 (1996): 9-27. (historical overview: nation-building and immigration)
Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1990.
Zunz, Olivier. “American History and the Changing Meaning of Assimilation.” Journal of American Ethnic History 4
(Spring 1985): 53-84.
III. Language and (national) identity/globalization/varieties of English in specific locations
a) Europe
Barbour, Stephen; & Cathie Carmichael, eds. Language and Nationalism in Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP 2002. ULB:
Freihand 3H 61543
Edwards, Alison. English in the Netherlands: Functions, Forms and Attitudes. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2015. ULB:
Freihand 3K 63043; EnglSem: 4.0 Görl 79 [G 56]
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Proshina, Zoya. Russian English: History, Functions, and Features. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016.
EnglSem: 12.0 Pros 2016
b) Britain
Rampton, Ben. Crossing. Manchester: St. Jerome, 2nd
ed. 2005. Germanisches Institut: SP 78716
Rampton, Ben. Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2006.
EnglSem: 12.0 Ramp 2006
c) USA
Johnstone, Barbara. Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013. EnglSem:
4.0 John 2013
Labov, William. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd
ed.
2006. EnglSem: 4.0 Labo 66+2
Lippi-Green, Rosina. English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States. London:
Routledge, 2nd
ed. 2012. EnglSem: 12.0 Lipp 97+2
Wolfram, Walt. American English: Dialects and Variation. Chichester: Wiley, 3rd
ed. 2016. EnglSem: 4.0 Wolf 98+3
d) Asia
Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. Singapore English: Structure, Variation, and Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2013. EnglSem: 4.0 Leim 2013
Lim, Lisa; Anne Pakir and Lionel Wee, eds. English in Singapore: Modernity and Management. Hong Kong: Hong
Kong UP 2010. EnglSem: 4.0 Lim 2010
Lo Bianco, Joseph; Jane Orton and Gao Yihong, eds. China and English: Globalization and the Dilemmas of Identity.
Bristol: Multilingual Matters 2016. EnglSem: 12.0 LoBi 2009
McKenzie, Robert M. The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language: Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the
Japanese Context. Dordrecht: Springer 2010. ULB: 3K 28957; EnglSem: 12.0 McKe 2010
Simpson, Andrew, ed. Language and National Identity in Asia. Oxford: Oxford UP 2007. EnglSem: 4.0 Simp 2007
Vaish, Viniti. Biliteracy and Globalization: English Language Education in India. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
2008. EnglSem: D – 4.52
e) Africa
Higgins, Christina. English as a Local Language: Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices. Bristol:
Multilingual Matters 2009. EnglSem: 4.0 Higg 2009
Orman, John. Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa. New York: Springer 2008.
EnglSem: 4.0 Orma 2008
Simpson, Andrew, ed. Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008. ULB:
Freihand 3K 42211; EnglSem: 12.0 Simp 2008
f) Caribbean
Deuber, Dagmar. English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press 2014. ULB: Freihand 3K55307; EnglSem: 4.0 Deub 2014
Moll, Andrea. Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic Styling and Authenticity in a Digital ‘Yaad’. Amsterdam:
Benjamins 2015. EnglSem: 12.0 Moll 2015
Mühleisen, Susanne. Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon
Creoles. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2002. EnglSem: 4.0 Mühl 2002
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St-Hilaire, Aonghas. Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, Language Planning, and National
Development. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2011. EnglSem: 4.0 StHi 2011
g) The Pacific and Australasia
Blair, David and Peter Collins, eds. English in Australia. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2001. EnglSem: 4.0 Görl 79 [G 26]
Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper, eds. New Zealand English. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2000. EnglSem: 4.0 Görl 79 [G
25]
Biewer, Carolin. South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan
English and Cook Islands English. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2015. EnglSem: 4.0 Görl 79 [G 52]
IV. Methods in Linguistics
a) Linguistics
Krug, Manfred G.; & Julia Schlüter, ed. Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP 2013. EnglSem: 0.4 Krug 2013
Litosseliti, Lia, ed. Research Methods in Linguistics. London: Continuum 2010. ULB: Freihand: 3K 23207; EnglSem:
0.2 Lito 2010
Podesva, Robert J.; & Devyani Sharma, ed. Research Methods in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2013. ULB:
Freihand 3K 50806; EnglSem: 0.2 Pode 2013
Rasinger, Sebastian S. Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Continuum 2008. ULB:
Freihand 3K 10385; EnglSem: 0.2 Rasi 2008+2
b) Sociolinguistics/ Sociophonetics
DiPaolo, Marianna; & Malcah Yaeger-Dror. Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide. London: Routledge 2011. ULB:
Freihand 3K 29862; EnglSem: 1.0 DiPa 2011
Holmes, Janet; & Kirk Hazen, ed. Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide. Chichester: Wiley-
Blackwell 2014. EnglSem: 12.0 Holm 2014
Meyerhoff, Miriam; Erik Schleef; & Laurel MacKenzie. Doing Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide to Data Collection
and Analysis. London: Routledge 2015. ULB: Freihand 3K 58763; EnglSem: 12.0 Meye 2015
Schilling-Estes, Natalie. Sociolinguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2013. EnglSem: AL - 5.49
c) Social Science
Bryman, Alan. Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford UP, 5th
ed. 2016. EnglSem: 12.0 Brym 2012+5; ZB
Sozialwissenschaften: MR 2000/370(4) [(4th
ed.)
d) Corpus Linguistics
Biber, Douglas; & Randi Reppen, eds.. The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP 2015. ULB: Freihand 3K 58035; EnglSem: 10.3 Bibe 2015
Crawford, William J.; & Eniko Csomay. Doing Corpus Linguistics. London: Routledge 2015. ULB: Freihand 3K
60248; EnglSem: 10.3 Craw 2016
O’Keefe, Anne; & Michael McCarthy, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. New York: Routledge
2010. ULB: Freihand 3K 24618; EnglSem: 10.3 O'Kee 2010
Weisser, Martin. Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis. Chichester:
Wiley-Blackwell 2016. EnglSem: 10.3 Weis 2016
e) New Media
Page, Ruth; David Barton; Johann Wolfgang Unger; & Michele Zappavigna. Researching Language and Social Media:
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A Student Guide. New York: Routledge 2014. ULB: Freihand 3K 51881
f) Statistics
Cantos Gómez, Pascual. Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research. Sheffield: Equinox 2013. ULB:
Freihand 3K 51522; EnglSem: 10.2 Cont 2013
Field, Andy. Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. London: SAGE, 4th
ed. 2013. EnglSem: 10.2 Fiel 2009;
ZB Sozialwissenschaften: MR 2200/383(4)
Field, Andy; Jeremy Miles; & Zoë Field. Discovering Statistics Using R. London: SAGE, 3rd
ed. 2012. EnglSem: 10.2
Fiel 2012; ZB Sozialwissenschaften: MR 2100/496B
Wander, Lowie; & Bregtje Seton. Essential Statistics for Applied Linguistics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
ULB: Freihand 3K 43481; EnglSem: 10.2 Lowi 2013
g) Discourse Analysis
Wodak, Ruth; & Michael Meyer, eds. Methods of Critical Discourse Studies. London: SAGE, 3rd
ed. 2016. EnglSem:
13.1 Woda 2016
V. Book Studies (All shelf marks refer to the book studies library)
a) Basics
Barker, Nicolas, and Thomas Adams. “A New Model for the Study of the Book.” A Potencie of Life. Ed. Nicolas Barker
and Thomas Adams. London, 1994, 5-43. (BH 515:37)
Darnton, Robert. “What is the History of Books?” Daedalus, 111.3 (1982), 65-83.
---. “‘What is the History of Books?’ Revisited,” Modern Intellectual History, 4 (2007), 495-508.
Dane, Joseph A. What Is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books. Notre Dame, 2012. (BT 77:4)
Eisenstein, Elizabeth Lewisohn. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First
Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. Philadelphia, 2011. (BT 29:4)
---. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern
Europe. Cambridge, 1979. (BT 29)
abridged version: The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 2005. (BH 111:3)
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, ed. A Companion to the History of the Book. Oxford, 2007. (BH 6:2)
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. 2nd ed. London, 2006. (BH 111:1)
Funke, Fritz. Buchkunde. 6th ed. München, 1999. (BH 2:1 bis)
Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Oxford, 1972. (BM 67)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. London, 1986. (BM 67:3)
Tanselle, G. Thomas. Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge, 2009. (BM 67:10)
Rautenberg, Ursula, ed. Buchwissenschaft in Deutschland. Ein Handbuch: Theorie und Forschung -
Fachkommunikation, Lehre, Institutionen und Gesellschaften. 2 vols. Berlin, 2010. (BH 2:25)
b) National book history
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (BH 110:17)
Vol. I: c.400-1100. Ed. Richard Gameson. Cambridge, 2012.
Vol. II: 1100-1400. Ed. Nigel Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson. Cambridge, 2008.
Vol. III: 1400-1557. Ed. Lotte Hellinga and Joseph Burney Trapp. Cambridge, 1999.
Vol. IV: 1557-1695. Ed. John Barnard and Donald Francis McKenzie. Cambridge, 2002.
Vol. V: 1695-1830. Ed. Michael Felix Suarez and Michael L. Turner. Cambridge, 2009.
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Vol. VI: 1830-1914. Ed. David McKitterick. Cambridge, 2009.
A History of the Book in America (BH 752:2)
Vol. I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall, Chapel Hill, 2007.
Vol. II: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. Ed. Robert A. Gross and
Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill, 2010.
Vol. III: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880. Ed. Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves and Stephen W. Nissenbaum. Chapel
Hill, 2007.
Vol. IV: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940. Ed. Carl F.
Kaestle and Janice A. Radway. Chapel Hill, 2009.
Vol. V: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America. Ed. David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin and Michael
Schudson. Chapel Hill, 2009.
The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (BN 79:1)
Vol. II: Enlightenment and Expansion, 1707-1800. Ed. Stephen Brown and Warren McDougall. Edinburgh, 2011.
Vol. III: Ambition and Industry, 1800-1880. Ed. Bill Bell. Edinburgh, 2007.
Vol. IV: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880-2000. Ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. Edinburgh, 2007.
c) Reference works
Carter, John, and Nicolas Barker. ABC for Book Collectors. 8th ed. Newcastle, Delaware; London, 2006. (BN 172:1)
Corsten, Severin, et al, ed. Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Stuttgart, 1987 - . (BN 1:1)
Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. Encyclopedia of the Book. 2nd ed. New Castle, Delaware; London, 1996. (BN 5:9)
Hiller, Helmut, and Stephan Füssel. Wörterbuch des Buches. 7th ed. Frankfurt am Main, 2006. (BN 2:11)
Rautenberg, Ursula, ed. Reclams Sachlexikon des Buches. 3rd ed.Stuttgart, 2015. (BN 2:14)
Suarez, Michael F., and Henry R. Woudhuyen, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Book. 2 vols. Oxford, 2010. (BH 6:3)
Tanselle, G. Thomas. Introduction to Bibliography: Seminar Syllabus. Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 2002.
(http://www.rarebookschool.org/tanselle/)