Nation and NarrationHomi K. Bhabha Psychology Press, 1990 - 333 pages 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'. |
Table des matières
Introduction narrating the nation | 1 |
What is a nation? | 8 |
Tribes within nations the ancient Germans and the history of modern France | 23 |
The national longing for form | 44 |
Irresistible romance the foundational fictions of Latin America | 71 |
Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms multicultural readings of Australia | 99 |
Postal politics and the institution of the nation | 121 |
Literature Nationalisms other? The case for revision | 138 |
Destiny made manifest the styles of Whitmans poetry | 177 |
Breakfast in America Uncle Tom s cultural histories | 197 |
Telescopic philanthropy professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House | 213 |
European pedigreesAfrican contagions nationality narrative and communality in Tutuola Achebe and Reed | 231 |
English reading | 250 |
The island and the aeroplane the case of Virginia Woolf | 265 |
DissemiNation time narrative and the margins of the modern nation | 291 |
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