Nation and Narration
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415014832
ISBN-13
9780415014830
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 19th, 1990
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
562 grams
Dimensions
23.20 x 15.50 x 2.60 cms
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A classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different narrations of the 'nation'. Contributors include Gillian Beer, Homi Bhabha, Rachel Bowlby, Simon During, Sneja Gunew, and Doris Sommer.
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.
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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