Title: Art and the Nation
Subtitle: Selected Literary Essays
Description: The book is a collection of diverse literary essays on a wide range of issues and approaches including feminist analysis, close reading, subjectivity analysis and post-colonial experience. It introduces the reader to the multifaceted nature of literary experience, and therefore identifies to some degree the possibilities and manifestation resident in the exploration of the text of ‘nation’, ‘nationhood’ and ‘national identity’. The book, therefore, explores the dialectic of personal and the collective.