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Nation and narration / edited by Homi K. Bhabha. - viii, 333 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN: 0415014824 9780415014823 0415014832 9780415014830

LCCN: 89024051

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nationalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN56.N19 / N38 1990