Nation and NarrationHomi K. Bhabha Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. |
Contents
Introduction narrating the nation | 1 |
What is a nation? | 8 |
Tribes within nations the ancient Germans and the history of modern France | 23 |
The national longing for form | 44 |
Irresistible romance the foundational fictions of Latin America | 71 |
Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms multicultural readings of Australia | 99 |
Postal politics and the institution of the nation | 121 |
Literature Nationalisms other? The case for revision | 138 |
Destiny made manifest the styles of Whitmans poetry | 177 |
Breakfast in America Uncle Tom s cultural histories | 197 |
Telescopic philanthropy professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House | 213 |
European pedigreesAfrican contagions nationality narrative and communality in Tutuola Achebe and Reed | 231 |
English reading | 250 |
The island and the aeroplane the case of Virginia Woolf | 265 |
DissemiNation time narrative and the margins of the modern nation | 291 |
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