...Jay Garcia This essay argues that “New Negro” and “Young American” writings from the early twentieth century reward rereading in concert with Antonio Gramsci’s concept of a “national-popular” and as instances of theoretical production in themselves. Focusing on the work of Randolph Bourne (1886...

... artistic leaders of film units.33 While “national cinema” traveled within the narrow circuit of cul- tural institutions, national intellectuals, Western critics, and movie buffs, the majority of national populations avoided art films and quietly migrated to television and popular films during...

..., and superstition as the root of China's backwardness, are merely attempting to foist the blame they ought rightly take themselves onto someone else's shoulders. He further excoriates the simplistic popular trends toward nationalism as bestial jingoism and chauvinism. He ends by exhorting the Chinese to promote...

... remote phenomena. The success of Irish national literature has been in some ways spec- tacular. The literature of the Young Irelanders was self-­consciously roman- tic and popular. Broad sections of a poorly educated Irish public then under- going a traumatic language change embraced...

..., the implications of the political unfolding of the Arab Spring in Egypt. With a consensus that the Egyptian revolution is not a color revolution, Samir Amin examines the components and strategies of the movement that brought down the Mubarak regime, the formation of Popular Committees and the National Council...

... programs are remnants of the ideological, national, and economic wars of the previous century, the boundary separating them is permeable. Jiang Rong 姜 戎’s prizewinning novel, Wolf Totem 《狼图腾》, helps us see this porosity. Wolf Totem is the first “Chinese Cultural Revolution” (fictional) memoir written...

...Anustup Basu This essay is a critical evaluation of contemporary urban Hindutva in the light of Carl Schmitt's famous assertion that all liberal political concepts are transposed theological ones. Without agreeing with Schmitt's hard-right nationalism, one can see that from the discursive...

...Roberto Fernández Retamar This essay on Cuba's national poet, José Martí, written originally in the early 1960s for a non-Cuban audience in the wake of the victory of the Cuban Revolution, acquires a new context with the neo-imperialism of the Bush regime and the recent resurgence of the Latin...

... at the conservative think-tank FAES (Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies), which has strong ties to the Popular Party. His argument sustains a contradictory premise: that, while Catalan nationalism is populist, it is so despite not truly representing the people. Catalan secessionism, according to this view...

... the Spanish State) is comprehensible and commendable, but it does not come without a price. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Catalan Left gained argumentative traction thanks to the Gramscian concept of “the national-popular.” But these gains generated ambiguous results. On the one hand, Gramsci's...

... of Ciudadanos (Citizens). As the conflict in Catalonia grew, Citizens embraced Spanish nationalism. But it and the Partido Popular were soon outflanked on the right by Vox, a neo-Francoist, Far Right party in 2018 and 2019. The push toward independence in Catalonia is, too, a result of this crisis...

..., they found Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Antonio Maceo, and Martí—that is, something more than an ideology, a concrete vocation of justice and liberty. The Cuban national-popular interpretation of Marxist-Leninist socialism...

... differentiation and disassociation of the Japanese people from those of other nations. In foreign diplomacy, Japan’s only partner of significance is the United States. Even in everyday life, feelings of commonality or a sense of solidarity with other nations is skillfully kept out of popular discourse...

... of the population in the Revolution allowed the successful implementation of revolutionary social changes. Radical representations of popular armed national liberation struggle, and of the anti-imperialism associated with it, were...

... not as a class but as ‘‘the other’’ of the opposed power bloc and presents its class objectives as the cultivation of the national-popular against com- mon enemies. For Ernesto Laclau, the discourse of a nation is one distinc- tive kind of populism, not the mirror of bourgeois domination or a project...

... eruption of ever- growing national popular protest confirmed his judgment. The state’s increasingly bloody repression over the course of the follow- ing days in response was disproportionate to the peaceful demonstrations and transformed them into confrontations between the masses driven by anger...

... and Mario Camerini. La terra trema was to have been part of a trilogy “on a prospective revolution in the South brought about by a union of fishermen, miners, and peasants, the kind of national-popular alliance Gramsci envisioned between southern agricul- tural peasants and northern...

... a form of universality grounded within the national- popular (i.e., the peasantry), the profoundly statist and reformist orienta- tion of bourgeois Indian nationalism merely reproduced the global union between ‘‘Reason and capital’’ and authorized the continued marginaliza- tion of subaltern social...

..., and in no other form, not even the Hindi git, or ‘‘song’’ that is sometimes said to be the national-popular poetic genre par excellence, are the contradictions of the social so deeply inscribed. Even in his practice of the diffuse nazm form—whose only possible definition appears...

[email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 songs nation postcolonial art cinema popular cinema A considerable body of research has been devoted to understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema in terms of the ubiquity of its song and dance interludes. The integral role...