 | Neil Larsen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 228 pages
...externalized and symbolic relation. “Communities,” to cite Anderson again, here without ellipses, “are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.” 7 But note that this takes it as a given that narrative, or the “imagined” form of community, is... | |
 | Yaʻaḳov Shaviṭ - History - 2001 - 452 pages
...a mass project of rewriting human history. Moreover, 'Communities', according to Benedict Anderson, 'are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.'2 Thus, if historical myths and legends, or an invented history, play such a major role in... | |
 | Anil Kaputanoglu, Nicole Meyer - European literature - 2002 - 364 pages
...meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. (...) In fact, all communities larger than primordial villages...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined." Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London... | |
 | Bryan Reynolds - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. ... In fact, all communities larger than primordial villages...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. . . . The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion... | |
 | Sunaina Maira - Social Science - 2012 - 258 pages
...cross-fertilization with other cultural traditions. This perspective is summarized in Benedict Anderson's statement: "Communities are to be distinguished, not by their...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined" (1990, p. 6). Yet, theoretical interventions notwithstanding, the concern with national or ethnic authenticity... | |
 | Günther Schlee - Ethnic conflict - 2002 - 300 pages
...than, as Srinivas once remarked, as they actually are 'back-to-back'. Although Anderson writes that 'communities are to be distinguished, not by their...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined' (1983: 15), the range of styles he allows is tightly circumscribed. Anderson also presupposes that... | |
 | Antje Mansbrügge - 2002 - 306 pages
...of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined. Communities are to be distlnguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined." (S. 6) Benedict Andersen, Imagined Communities. Reflectlons on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism,... | |
 | Keith Brown - History - 2003 - 322 pages
...Anderson suggests in his introduction that this was not his intention. "In fact," he writes there, "all communities larger than primordial villages of...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined" (1991:6). My book is intended as a cultural study of a national history, in which the "state" plays... | |
 | Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson, Karen J. Shepherdson - Art - 2004 - 424 pages
...of subjects, and thereby enable us to discover who we are. Communities, Benedict Anderson argues in Imagined Communities are to be distinguished, not...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined, (pi 5) This is the vocation of a modern Caribbean cinema: by allowing us to see and recognise the different... | |
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In fact, all communities larger than primordial villages of face-toface contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. 
