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Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha

Nation and Narration Homi K. Bhabha ebook
ISBN: 0415014832, 9780415014830
Format: pdf
Page: 344
Publisher: Routledge

Bhabha's introduction to the book Nation and Narrative emphasises the importance of the narrative of the nation in the construction of the nation itself. The book 'Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration' takes stock of the country's history since 1960, when it obtained its independence, analyzing the lingering problems while also projecting into the future. As a result, a “strategic narrative” can be understood as the story that a nation must tell itself, and the world, to wage a war or to maintain its competitive advantage in the international system. But if there is one thing I highly favor with non-fiction cinema, it's the absence of narration -- unless it is of a more poetic nature like Werner Herzog's voice-overs or the eerie sci-fi-like Into Eternity. Visions of 'Daydream Nation' Ashley Jo Moltzan. That the nation is a 'form of narrative' makes the idea of nation more, not less, powerful, “[a]n idea whose cultural compulsion lies in the impossible unity of the nation as symbolic force” (Bhabha 1990:2). €�To write the story of the nation demands that we articulate that archaic ambivalence that informs the time of modernity” (Bhabha quoted by Gikandi). Mitchell includes in his book a journal, a series of letters, an interview, a third-person narration, two first-person narrations, one oral and one written. Cultural representation; Nation; nationalism; national identity;. Released on video May 17, 2011, “Daydream Nation” is primary the narration of a high school girl as she enters a new school in a new town. In this talk, Chuh responds to the ways that the consequences of the nation:narration connection so compellingly argued by many scholars continues to shape critical inquiry and to invite metatextual consideration.