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Nation and Its Margins
Nation and Its Margins
Bhabha
( 1949)
Works
Nation and Narration (1990)
The Location of Culture (1994)
The Black Servant and the Dark Princess (2006)
On Global Memory: Reflections on Barbaric Transmission
(2009)
Beyond Photography (2011)
Dissemination: Time, Narrative and
the Margins of the Modern Nation
Nation
An imagined political Community (Benedict
Anderson)
Modes of Representation
1. Pedagogic
2. Performative
Pedagogic Representation
Construted historical narratives which glorify national
identities
Nationalist discourses
fragile, split and contradictory
not benevolent, inclusive
illeberal, exculsive