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Nation & Narration

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Nation & Narration

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Nation & Narration

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Nation & Narration book

ByHomi K Bhabha
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1990
eBook Published 19 April 1990
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203388341
Pages 352
eBook ISBN 9780203388341
Subjects Language & Literature
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Bhabha, H.K. (1990). Nation & Narration (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203388341

ABSTRACT

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'.

From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction: narrating the nation

chapter 2|15 pages

What is a nation?

chapter 3|21 pages

Tribes within nations: the ancient Germans and the history of modern France

chapter 4|27 pages

The national longing for form

chapter 5|28 pages

Irresistible romance: the foundational fictions of Latin America

chapter 6|22 pages

Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms: multicultural readings of 'Australia'

chapter 7|17 pages

Postal politics and the institution of the nation

chapter 8|16 pages

Literature — Nationalism's other? The case for revision

chapter 9|23 pages

Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art

chapter 10|20 pages

Destiny made manifest: the styles of Whitman's poetry

chapter 11|16 pages

Breakfast in America — Uncle Tom's cultural histories

chapter 12|18 pages

Telescopic philanthropy: professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House

chapter 13|19 pages

European pedigrees/African contagions: nationality, narrative, and communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed

chapter 14|15 pages

English reading

chapter 15|26 pages

The island and the aeroplane: the case of Virginia Woolf

chapter 16|32 pages

DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation

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