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Nation and narration / edited by Homi K. Bhabha.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2013Copyright date: ©1990Description: viii, 333 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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