Nation and Narration

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'.

1 Introduction: narrating the nation 2 What is a nation? 3 Tribes within nations: the ancient Germans and the history of modem France 4 The national longing for form 5 Irresistible romance: the foundational fictions of Latin America 6 Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms: multicultural readings of' Australia' 7 Postal politics and the institution of the nation 8 Literature - Nationalism's other? The case for revision 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art 10 Destiny made manifest: the styles of Whitman's poetry 11 Breakfast in America - Uncle Tom's cultural histories 12 Telescopic philanthropy: professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House 13 European pedigrees/African contagions: nationality, narrative, and communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed 14 English reading 15 The island and the aeroplane: the case of Virginia Woolf 16 Dissemination: time, narrative, and the margins of the modem nation