Myths of the Nation
National Identity and Literary Representations
ISBN13: 9780198183396ISBN10: 0198183399
Hardback,
232 pages
Jul 1999,
In Stock
Price:
$125.00 (06)Description
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.About the Author(s)
Rumina Sethi is a British Academy Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and has written widely on Postcolonial Cultural Studies.
