Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representations

ISBN-13: 9780198183396 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 232 str.

Rumina Sethi

Opis

This book focuses on the construction of forms of historical consciousness in narratives, or schools of narrative. The study seeks to underscore what goes behind the writing of true' and authentic' histories by treating historical fiction as the literary dimension of nationalist ideology. It traces nationalism from its abstract underpinnings to its concrete manifestation in historical fiction which underwrites the Indian freedom struggle.

Recenzje

As both a single-author study and an analysis of the dilemmas and aspirations of twentieth-century India, Sethi's book makes compelling reading

O autorze

Rumina Sethi is a British Academy Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and has written widely on Postcolonial Cultural Studies.