Nation and narration / edited by Homi K. Bhabha.

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/African 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.