ABSTRACT
Many of those who constitute these new communities of interest, such as refugees, underclasses, diasporic-by their very nature many of these people often don’t have access to their own representation. And I think their experiences, and their voices must be heard in their own words in order to make us rethink what we understand by nation, national belonging, or national culture: to question nation, to question citizenship, to question community. It’s never adequate to say their voices must be heard as voices, because none of their voices are just innocent voices, their voices are mediated through the dialogue they have with the questioner, through their own sense of what it means to represent themselves, through their own ideologies, so they are also framed voices, if you like, and produced voices. But in just that sense they are testimonies of the construction of a changing identity, of a changing polity, of a changing transnational community.
