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.
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1 Introduction: narrating the nation |
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3 Tribes within nations: the ancient Germans and the history of modern France |
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4 The national longing for form |
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5 Irresistible romance: the foundational fictions of Latin America |
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6 Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms: multicultural readings of `Australia' |
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7 Postal politics and the institution of the nation |
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8 Literature --- Nationalism's other? The case for revision |
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9 Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art |
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10 Destiny made manifest: the styles of Whitman's poetry |
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11 Breakfast in America --- Uncle Tom's cultural histories |
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12 Telescopic philanthropy: professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House |
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13 European pedigrees/African contagions: nationality, narrative, and communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed |
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15 The island and the aeroplane: the case of Virginia Woolf |
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16 DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation |
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George A. Morgan is Emeritus Professor of Education and Human Development at Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in child development and psychology from Cornell University. In addition to writing textbooks, he has advised many Ph.D. students in education and related fields. He has conducted a program of research on childrens motivation to master challenging tasks.
Karen C. Barrett is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University, where she teaches research methods and statistics classes as well as classes in her research area. She is also Professor of Community & Behavioral Health at Colorado School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Denver. Her research takes a functional approach to studying emotional and motivational processes and their influence on development; family and cultural influences on emotion regulation; and the development of social emotions such as guilt and shame.
Nancy L. Leech is Professor of Research and Evaluation Methods at the University of Colorado, Denver. She teaches graduate level courses in research, statistics, and measurement. She received her Ph.D. in education with an emphasis on research and statistics from Colorado State University in 2002. Her area of research is promoting new developments and better understandings in applied, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.
Gene W. Gloeckner is Professor, former IRB Chair, former School of Education Director, and one voyage Semester at Sea Dean. He received his Ph.D. and B.S. from The Ohio State University and M.S. from Colorado State University. Much of his writing and teaching has focus on issues in quantitative and mixed research methods. He has served as the academic advisor for over 60 doctoral graduates.
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