The Nation Across the World Postcolonial Literary Representations

The Nation across the World examines the present state of teh Nation in a variety of political formations and cultural locations around the world-from smaller but no less complex nations such as Australia, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa, to former colonial powers such as Britain and Spain, and the one suprenation of our day, the USA. In the process, a wide range of issues are explored, including colonialism, empire, race, language, ethnicity, resistance and rebellion, liberation, national self-fashioning and identity, and postcolonial migration and hybridity