NOVEL SUBJECTS: ON READING AND NATIONAL (SUBJECT) FORMATIONS From: Chasqui | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Unzueta, Fernando | Copyright Arizona State University - Languages and Literatures Nov 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Reading and Writing the Nation

Over the last two decades, Benedict Anderson and others have provided the basis for a new approach to the problem of nationalism and the formation of national cultures through writing and other cultural manifestations. While modern political doctrines and practices are still central to this new approach to the rise of nations, Anderson's major insight in Imagined Communities (1983/1991) consists in seeing nationalism as a cultural system (instead of a pol...

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