Nation-Building as Decolonising Performance: The example of CLR James Representing the Haitian Revolution

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dc.contributor.authorBedggood, D.
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-11T22:31:16Z
dc.date.available2010-10-11T22:31:16Z
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractBoth 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.en
dc.identifier.citationBedggood, D. (2008) Nation-Building as Decolonising Performance: The example of CLR James Representing the Haitian Revolution. Wellington, New Zealand: "Flogging a Dead Horse": Are National Literatures Finished?, 10-13 Dec 2008.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/4646
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Humanitiesen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1606 - Political Science::160609 - Political Theory and Political Philosophyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430317 - Latin and South American historyen
dc.titleNation-Building as Decolonising Performance: The example of CLR James Representing the Haitian Revolutionen
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