| Nation and Narration Contributor(s): Bhabha, Homi K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415014832 ISBN-13: 9780415014830 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: A classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different narrations of the 'nation'. Contributors include Gillian Beer, Homi Bhabha, introduction to the many different narrations of the |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 89024051 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.32" W x 9.18" (1.20 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |