![]() ![]() Of the human race will join their nation in the way it was possible, inĬertain epochs, for say, Christians to dream of a wholly Christian planet. The most messianic nationalists do not dream of a day when all the members ![]() No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind. The nation is imagined as limited becauseĮven the largest of them has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond Villages of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined.Ĭommunities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but Of their communion In fact, all communities larger than primordial Meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image ![]() Of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. The following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community In an anthropological spirit, then, I propose See longer extracts from Imagined Communities in RICORSO Classroom, Postcolonial Fiction, infra. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (1991)īenedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso 1991) The revival of the native was an inevitable protest against such homogenisation, a recognition that to be anglicised was not at all the same thing as to be English. (Andersson, ∞xodus, in Critical Inquiry, 20, 2, Winter 1994, p.316 quoted by Caroline Amador, UG Diss., UUC. ![]()
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