Both Ernest Renan, writing in “What is a Nation?”, and Benedict Anderson, in Imagined Communities, address the nation as a concept, representing an idea of community, principles of affiliation linked another, sovereignty, but also has a beginning and an end. The construction of Nation-States and the ideology of nationalism are often presented in terms of separation: the new political identity is distinct and perhaps even opposed in its relation to the past, however mythologized these distinctions are. In this paper, I seek to address this tendency within nation-building as a kind of disjunctive decolonizing act, but also to observe some of the ongoing complications to rupture.