Nation and narration/
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London New York:
Routledge,
1990
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Table of Contents:
- 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 ʹAustraliaʹ / Sneja Gunew
- Postal politics and the institution of the nation / Geoffrey Bennington
- Literature - nationalismʹs other? The case for revision / Simon During
- Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art / John Barrell
- Destiny made manifest: the styles of Whitmanʹs poetry / David Simpson
- Breakfast in America - Uncle Tomʹs cultural histories / Rachel Bowlby
- Telescopic philanthropy: professionalism and responsibilty 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