Product Description

A classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different narrations of the 'nation'. Contributors include Gillian Beer, Homi Bhabha, Rachel Bowlby, Simon During, Sneja Gunew, and Doris Sommer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #195470 in Books
• Published on: 1990-04-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
The nation is the epithet most commonly used to express the authenticity of cultural location. But who speaks in the name of the nation? How is a sense of nationness evoked? Nation and Narration raises these crucial questions across a diversity of literary genres. The essays range from studies in the national canon -- Australian, Latin-American, Afro-American and English -- to the analysis of national narratives in Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joshua Reynolds, Dickens, Woolf, and Rushdie, among others. By questioning the terms in which we attribute cultural authority to national and transnational locations, Nation and Narration attempts to transform the concepts with which we explain the social context of cultural representation.