· 2013
Nation and Narration
- 2,094citations
- 2013year
Short summary
This volume explores the complex realities of nationhood and the inherent ambivalence of language, drawing on diverse literary analyses to argue that English, detached from a singular national consciousness, offers an international dimension.
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Key points
- Examines the lived realities of nationhood and the ambivalence of language.
- Analyzes diverse literary works to explore national identity and its representation.
- Argues that English, detached from a singular national consciousness, offers an international dimension.
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Abstract
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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Field: Political Science and International Relations
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