Gregory Jusdanis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Jusdanis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Jusdanis |
| SIGNATURE | JUSDANIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Greece and the Global South: A case of incongruous comparison
Taking as its starting point the indifference, if not hostility, of postcolonial criticism to examples of modernization and belatedness outside of the western Europe/colony dichotomy, this article considers alternative projects of modernization. To this effect, it proposes the concept of incongruous comparison, defined as an attempt to juxtapose ideas, authors, institutions, texts that do not share a common history or geography. Incongruous compa…
The Necessary Nation
In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state has undergone intense scrutiny among critics in the media and the academy. Many believe that civic nationalism may be fruitful but that cultural nationalism fosters xenophobia and backward thinking. Jusdanis, however, emphasizes t…
Enlightenment Postcolonialism
World Literature: The Unbearable Lightness of Thinking Globally
1. Does literature have anything interesting to say about globalization? Is the work of literary critics germane to those analyzing today’s transnational flows of people, ideas, and goods? Many students of globalization, who work primarily in economics, political science, cultural studies, and journalism, would be skeptical of the claim that literary study could address their concerns. Indeed, they would be surprised to learn that Comparative Lit…
Acropolis Now
Culture, Culture Everywhere: The Swell of Globalization Theory
Diaspora 5:1 1996 Culture, Culture Everywhere: The Swell of Globalization Theory Gregory Jusdanis Ohio State University Bandied about in the media with the ease of fax messages, “globalization ” is poised to become a slogan. There hardly exists a public topic, ranging from Patrick Buchanan’s campaign in the 1996 primaries to Al Gore’s arterial metaphor of information as highway, from debates in education to the furor about immigration, from the m…
Can Multiculturalism Disunite America
Beyond National Culture
Is national culture over? Is the mortar of sentiments, beliefs, and customs that once cemented nations now crumbling before our eyes? What role could culture have today, when, on the one hand, it has colonized society, and, on the other, when the crusade of imposing a collective identity upon heterogeneous populations has exhausted itself? These apocalyptic questions are all the more frightening as we face both the fin de siecle and the closing o…
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature
Greek Americans and the Diaspora
The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History
Is Postmodernism Possible Outside the ‘West’? The Case of Greece
The term postmodernism has established itself securely in the discourse on art and literature of the last two decades. The postmodern along with the poststructural and postindustrial are concepts frequently used to designate the art, thought, and condition of our age. They all suggest a break not only in our aesthetic but also in our culture. The prefix ‘post’ seems to be much more final that the word ‘beyond’, in that we are no longer moving bey…
The Politics of Criticism: Deconstruction, Kazantzakis, ‘Literature’
The Life and Manners of Alexis Zorbas is Kazantzakis’ most popular and successful novel: in Greece it has been reprinted repeatedly, while abroad it has been the subject of many translations, having been adapted also for the stage and screen. In Europe and North America Alexis Zorbas perhaps ranks as the most widely read Greek novel and is widely perceived as the literary work which best represents the essence of Greece. A number of studies have …
Cavafy, Tennyson and the Overcoming of Influence
One of the striking features of Constantine Cavafy’s poetry is his apparent and pronounced originality. It seems to have an existence independent of poetry preceding it. Thus when studying Cavafy one has difficulties in detecting influences of earlier poetry. Indeed, in his mature years Cavafy was often able to appropriate his inherited tradition in such a revisionary manner that the old texts were transformed in his poetry almost beyond recognit…
Greek Americans and the Diaspora
Beyond National Culture
Is national culture over? Is the mortar of sentiments, beliefs, and customs that once cemented nations now crumbling before our eyes? What role could culture have today, when, on the one hand, it has colonized society, and, on the other, when the crusade of imposing a collective identity upon heterogeneous populations has exhausted itself? These apocalyptic questions are all the more frightening as we face both the fin de siecle and the closing o…
Is Postmodernism Possible Outside the ‘West’? The Case of Greece
The term postmodernism has established itself securely in the discourse on art and literature of the last two decades. The postmodern along with the poststructural and postindustrial are concepts frequently used to designate the art, thought, and condition of our age. They all suggest a break not only in our aesthetic but also in our culture. The prefix ‘post’ seems to be much more final that the word ‘beyond’, in that we are no longer moving bey…
Culture, Culture Everywhere: The Swell of Globalization Theory
Diaspora 5:1 1996 Culture, Culture Everywhere: The Swell of Globalization Theory Gregory Jusdanis Ohio State University Bandied about in the media with the ease of fax messages, “globalization ” is poised to become a slogan. There hardly exists a public topic, ranging from Patrick Buchanan’s campaign in the 1996 primaries to Al Gore’s arterial metaphor of information as highway, from debates in education to the furor about immigration, from the m…
Cavafy, Tennyson and the Overcoming of Influence
One of the striking features of Constantine Cavafy’s poetry is his apparent and pronounced originality. It seems to have an existence independent of poetry preceding it. Thus when studying Cavafy one has difficulties in detecting influences of earlier poetry. Indeed, in his mature years Cavafy was often able to appropriate his inherited tradition in such a revisionary manner that the old texts were transformed in his poetry almost beyond recognit…
Cavafy, Tennyson and the Overcoming of Influence
One of the striking features of Constantine Cavafy’s poetry is his apparent and pronounced originality. It seems to have an existence independent of poetry preceding it. Thus when studying Cavafy one has difficulties in detecting influences of earlier poetry. Indeed, in his mature years Cavafy was often able to appropriate his inherited tradition in such a revisionary manner that the old texts were transformed in his poetry almost beyond recognit…
The Politics of Criticism: Deconstruction, Kazantzakis, ‘Literature’
The Life and Manners of Alexis Zorbas is Kazantzakis’ most popular and successful novel: in Greece it has been reprinted repeatedly, while abroad it has been the subject of many translations, having been adapted also for the stage and screen. In Europe and North America Alexis Zorbas perhaps ranks as the most widely read Greek novel and is widely perceived as the literary work which best represents the essence of Greece. A number of studies have …
Is Postmodernism Possible Outside the ‘West’? The Case of Greece
The term postmodernism has established itself securely in the discourse on art and literature of the last two decades. The postmodern along with the poststructural and postindustrial are concepts frequently used to designate the art, thought, and condition of our age. They all suggest a break not only in our aesthetic but also in our culture. The prefix ‘post’ seems to be much more final that the word ‘beyond’, in that we are no longer moving bey…
The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature
Greek Americans and the Diaspora
Beyond National Culture
Is national culture over? Is the mortar of sentiments, beliefs, and customs that once cemented nations now crumbling before our eyes? What role could culture have today, when, on the one hand, it has colonized society, and, on the other, when the crusade of imposing a collective identity upon heterogeneous populations has exhausted itself? These apocalyptic questions are all the more frightening as we face both the fin de siecle and the closing o…
Acropolis Now
Culture, Culture Everywhere: The Swell of Globalization Theory
Diaspora 5:1 1996 Culture, Culture Everywhere: The Swell of Globalization Theory Gregory Jusdanis Ohio State University Bandied about in the media with the ease of fax messages, “globalization ” is poised to become a slogan. There hardly exists a public topic, ranging from Patrick Buchanan’s campaign in the 1996 primaries to Al Gore’s arterial metaphor of information as highway, from debates in education to the furor about immigration, from the m…
Can Multiculturalism Disunite America
World Literature: The Unbearable Lightness of Thinking Globally
1. Does literature have anything interesting to say about globalization? Is the work of literary critics germane to those analyzing today’s transnational flows of people, ideas, and goods? Many students of globalization, who work primarily in economics, political science, cultural studies, and journalism, would be skeptical of the claim that literary study could address their concerns. Indeed, they would be surprised to learn that Comparative Lit…
Enlightenment Postcolonialism
The Necessary Nation
In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state has undergone intense scrutiny among critics in the media and the academy. Many believe that civic nationalism may be fruitful but that cultural nationalism fosters xenophobia and backward thinking. Jusdanis, however, emphasizes t…
Greece and the Global South: A case of incongruous comparison
Taking as its starting point the indifference, if not hostility, of postcolonial criticism to examples of modernization and belatedness outside of the western Europe/colony dichotomy, this article considers alternative projects of modernization. To this effect, it proposes the concept of incongruous comparison, defined as an attempt to juxtapose ideas, authors, institutions, texts that do not share a common history or geography. Incongruous compa…
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