Nation and narration / edited by Homi K. Bhabha.

Contributor(s):

Bhabha, Homi K, 1949- [editor.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415861888
9780415861885

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

809.93358 23

LOC classification:

PN56.N19 N38 2013

Contents:

Introduction : narrating the nation / Homi K. Bhabha -- What is a nation? / Ernest Renan -- Tribes within nations : the ancient Germans and the history of modern France / Martin Thom -- The national longing for form / Timothy Brennan -- Irresistible romance : the foundational fictions of Latin America / Doris Sommer -- Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms : multicultural readings of 'Australia' / Sneja Gunew -- Postal politics and the institution of the nation / Geoffrey Bennington -- Literature : nationalism's other? : the case for revision / Simon During -- Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art / John Barrell -- Destiny made manifest : the styles of Whitman's poetry / David Simpson -- Breakfast in America : Uncle Tom's cultural histories / Rachel Bowlby -- Telescopic philanthropy : professionalism and responsibility in Bleak house / Bruce Robbins -- European pedigrees / contagions : nationality, narrative, and communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed / James Snead -- English reading / Francis Mulhern -- The island and the aeroplane : the case of Virginia Woolf / Gillian Beer -- DissemiNation : time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation / Homi K. Bhabha.

Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus North Campus Main Collection	809.93358 NAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Issued	08/11/2024	A527021B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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