Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Can I have a summary of the main ideas of the book Nation and Narration by Bhabha?

Bhabha has drawn together a collection of essayists to address the questions of
"'When did we become 'a people'? When did we stop being one? Or are we in the process of
becoming one?'" and "What kind of a cultural space is the nation with its
transgressive boundaries and its 'interruptive' interiority?"

One of the
essayists' key focuses is on the ambivalence that exists as a consequence of the history of the
emergence of the culturally indeterminant nation and because of the ambivalence inherent in the
language that is used to construct the history, or the narrative, of the nation (used
generically to mean the concept of "nation").

As a result of these
objectives, the main ideas addressed in the collection of essays in Nation and
Narrative
often focus on two loci of thought: ambivalence and cultural signification.
I've briefly summarized some of the book's complex and complexly expressed main ideas below as
Bhabha expressed the ideas in the introduction, " href="http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bhabha/nation.html">Narrating the
nation," to Nation...


  • href="http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bhabha/nation.html">http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bhabha/nation.html

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