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Nation and Narration

By Homi K. Bhabha

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1990
ISBN
0415014832, 9780415014830
LCC
PN56.N19 N38 1990
Open Library ID
OL2202327M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6532524 bytes)
Edition
1st Ed.
Pages
344\344
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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