Nation and narration / edited by Homi K. Bhabha.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
Description
viii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Summary note
    A collection of essays celebrating the fact that English is no longer just an English' language. Contributors include Gillian Beer, Rachel Bowlby, Doris Sommer and Sneja Gunew.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    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 '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
    • Breadfast 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 --
    • (cont.)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.
    ISBN
    • 0415014832 (pbk.)
    • 0415014824
    LCCN
    ^^^89024051^
    OCLC
    20358012
    RCP
    H - S
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