Nation & Narration 1st Edition by Homi K Bhabha (PDF)

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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.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Book is in great condition, arrived on time (before schedule, actually), and was packaged simple, but well.

⭐part of the problem of the review one of the readers has left is the reading as the non-European world as “the periphery”. Thank you for so neatly exemplifying the point of postcolonial studies with your sweeping simplification about an entire discourse, because you “dislike it”.No, I dont think you should read Bhabha, because you’re missing the entire point quite thoroughly.

⭐I was mystified by the ignorance of a previous reviewer whose implications that Bhabha could not write clearly showed not only his stupidity, but perhaps also a marked LACK of reading classes. could i perhaps suggest to this gentleman that he take a reading class so that he is better equipped to deal with the prose, poetry and magic that abounds within this most important and significant of post-colonial discourses.

⭐Great book! Very insightful concerning relationships with ‘the other’ (other cultures, other people, etc.).

⭐How unfortunate that the previous reviewer had to resort to questioning a fellow reader’s intellect and ability to read what is undoubtedly a complicately structured text. This type of comment epitimises the elitism that Bhabha is himself charged with. The inaccessability of this text to the wide majority of readers(and that is not due to a need for reading classes) has left Bhabha’s ‘liminal space’ an area of discussion accessible only to a handful of individuals whose academic capital apparently surpasses that of their humility. There is no attempt made at any point in this book to explain what are undoubdtedly fascinating concepts in laymans terms, thereby excluding the vast majority of readers of all social strata for whom reading is a pleasure and not a struggle .

⭐I was forced to read this book, not out of personal interest, but for the purpose of a graduate seminar on Canadian identity. In his prose (if you would like to call it that), Bhabha offers no conclusion, no criticism of other theory, no theory at all for that matter, and no agency. It is poetry- which is great if you like poetry- but not so great if you are expecting to learn anything at all about nationalism or identity. He is well known for being incomprehensible for a good reason and unless you have the time to read and re-read then I also have to agree that you choose another author. Best of luck either way.

⭐Enlightening.

⭐For anyone doing Post-Colonial Lit, I highly suggest you get this book.

⭐The Book has all the chapters but in abridged version but yet it is good.

⭐Book condition is goodAnd timely delivered

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