Nation and Narration
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Nation and Narration

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  2. English
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Nation and Narration

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136769306
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: narrating the nation
  9. 2 What is a nation?
  10. 3 Tribes within nations: the ancient Germans and the history of modern France
  11. 4 The national longing for form
  12. 5 Irresistible romance: the foundational fictions of Latin America
  13. 6 Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms: multicultural readings of ‘Australia’
  14. 7 Postal politics and the institution of the nation
  15. 8 Literature – Nationalism’s other? The case for revision
  16. 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art
  17. 10 Destiny made manifest: the styles of Whitman’s poetry
  18. 11 Breakfast in America – Uncle Tom’s cultural histories
  19. 12 Telescopic philanthropy: professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House
  20. 13 European pedigrees/African contagions: nationality, narrative, and communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed
  21. 14 English reading
  22. 15 The island and the aeroplane: the case of Virginia Woolf
  23. 16 DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modem nation
  24. Index