Status Updates From Nation and Narration

. Ser Joshua Reynold and the Englishness of English art by Johen Barell.

7. Postal politics and the institution of nation by Geoffrey Bennington

6. Denaturalizing cultural nationalism by Sneja Gunew. The essay wasn't easy at all for me, it deals with Australian literature and the search to depict their national identity between Britishness and multiculturalism.

4. Irresistible romance by Doris Sommer. Quite interesting essay about the deliberate use of literary narrative to consolidate a new nation and write its history.

3. Tribes within nations.
It's basically a response to Renan's previous essay
4. The national longing for form.
By far my favorite essay

I'm trying to reread this book more systematically.1. Narrating the nation was the title of the first essay by Homi Bhabh himself, I honestly found it uncomfortable to read, it was too snobbish for my test. 2. What's a nation? By Ernst Renan. I found the essay very passionate, and an excellent pick to start the book with.

On Brenner's 'The National Longing for Form' now. feeling slightly regretful i didn't read this book to write my HT last time bcs it would have helped in refining my conceptual framework, but hey, never too late to learn sth.

Interesting

Still desperately trying to find my way through it, the essays are heavy for me I guess, yet there irresistibly delicious