A few (terribly tardy, contrite, and contrary) questions

Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nudged out of a dusty archival corner of tracking the raced and sexed implications of past inter-nation nationalisms and out of a Japan/U.S. focus into “west Asia” by the provocative questions and categories of the “Asian Nationalisms” project, I have no current work in West Asian nationalism (excluding that on Palestine) on which to construct a “position” for this “position paper.” Instead, reviewing my non-area focused comparative work of the last two decades on nationalism, modernity, globalization, borders, gender, and citizenship, I arrived at a few broad questions.

Read more in Dr. Layoun's Position Paper