Spectral Nationality
Subtitle: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780231130189
Subjects: Cultural studies; Political science & theory; Literary Criticism; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Asian - General; Emigration & Immigration; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Asian - South & Southeast Asian; Political; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Decolonization; National characteristics; Nationalism; Postcolonialism; State, The
First sentence: In "What Is a Nation?" (1882), Ernest Renan provides an exemplary definition: The nation, like an individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice, and devotion....