47 Few slogans have caught on and held so well as this one. The text's unity is the unity of culture a set of overlapping, unprogrammable connections and analogies within the strictly delimited frame of the work itself. The core of this language is its ability to absorb, but there is a clear hierarchy that organizes this process of inclusion: 'its own sturdy home-dated Angles-bred words have long been outnumbered by the foreigners whom they lead which is all good enough, and indeed must be' (p. 30). And whether the law be formulated as difference or differend, it is also a law of the inter-nation (though not as international law), with which to negotiate a survival.37 March 1986 Notes 1 'We know the scene: there are men gathered round, and someone telling them a story . . 7 N. Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art (1956); all quotations are from the edition of 1964 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964). Do interests, however, suffice to make a nation? The very few non-Anglo-Celts who do appear are not widely discussed in terms of their cultural affiliations, presumably because to intrude such questions would qualify the absolutist standards of excellence which purportedly transcend history and politics and which comprise the critical assumptions operating in this collection. What in fact is the defining feature of these different states? The former have favoured movement in history, whereas the latter have restricted it. On the horizontal axis are arranged different national languages according to the fixed rhythms of their lexis. Unproductive eroticism is not only immoral; it is unpatriotic and often related to the barbarous prehistory of the American mission and can be represented by 'unnatural' women for whom sensuality is power. But one looks in vain 186 David Simpson for any registration of the facts and consequences of the Indian removal policies that had been going on since the 1830s. Pound has elsewhere shown that many of Whitman's neologisms are adaptations from the French (although they do not outnumber his coinage of agentnouns, ending in '-ist', '-ite', '-ee'). '17 Race, geography, tradition, language, size, or some combination of these seem finally insufficient for determining national essence, and yet people die for nations, fight wars for them, and write fictions on their behalf. p. 349, n. 1), and especially the comment, 'In an endless chain of representations, desire carries death through the detour of writing' (tr. But the image I prefer is one that Mario Vargas Llosa builds up to in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: an earthquake that levels the most baroque architectural and literary construction imaginable. 3 Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, with Some Account of the Principal Artists, 4 vols (Strawberry Hill, 1762-71). Feliks Skrzynecki .. . 1201). 79 E. Durkheim, Preface to Annie Sociologique, vol. He continues to write of a world in which everything should be in its place, without specifying exactly what that place should be. Almost inevitably it has been the form through which a thin, foreign-educated stratum (however sensitive or committed to domestic political interests) has communicated to metropolitan reading publics, often in translation. It is the tragedy of one of the principal hero's sons who, in love with a Polish aristocratic girl, becomes a traitor to his people (p. 74). His writing is an ongoing demand that the reader admit the presence of what is written (not written 'about'), and the assertion of presence is used to insist that the reader remain alert and attentive. Renan himself was deeply committed to a Germanist approach, as the title of a study by Georges Sorel, '[The] Germanism arid historicism of Ernest Renan', makes clear.4 Those who are familiar with English history will know of the rhetoric regarding the Norman yoke, and will recall how often, across the centuries, the Anglo-Saxons have been depicted as the true English nation. The story of (the institution of) the nation will be irremediably complicated by this situation. Amsterd, The History of Medicine in Context Series Editors: Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell Department of History and Ph, Nation and Narration edited by Homi K. Bhabha Nation and Narration m London and New York First published 1990 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Reprinted 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999 (twice), 2000 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group The collection as a whole 1990 Routledge. Through their various and often opposed powers, nations participate in the common work of civilization; each sounds a note in the great concert of humanity, which, after all, is the highest ideal reality that we are capable of attaining. by Peter Skrzynecki. He continues exuberantly, taking sexual and nationalist chauvinism to their very edges: 'Are not the British beauties as wholesome, nourishing, substantial and inartistic, yet as excellent as good Old England's simple, honest fare: roast beef, roast mutton, pudding in flaming brandy; vegetables boiled in water, with two kinds of sauces, one of which is melted butter?' as a state in relation to other states), is in a position of unrestricted freedom. 48 Portraits, p. 128. 5 F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New York, London, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1941), p. ix. Prudent people write such letters in code. J.E. This was a historiographical introduction, published in Paris in 1840 to the Recit des Temps Merovingiens (Paris: Furne, 1840), which had originally been published as Nouvelles Lettres sur I'Histoire de France (18337). A nation is a spiritual principle, the outcome of the profound complications of history; it is a What is a nation? They were utterly indifferent to the race of the populations which they had subdued. please sign up Each time the question of cultural difference emerges as a challenge to relativistic notions of the diversity of culture, it reveals the margins of modernity. A heroic past, great men, glory (by which I understand genuine glory), this is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. Eagleton goes on to posit (without developing) the existence of such a counter-public sphere in 'the' women's movement. 78 My thanks to the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University for awarding me a fellowship which gave me time to write this paper. ), Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), pp. Reformation is the work of time. This is also in part why he has been revered by anthropologists within at least three different national traditions. 5, pp. I saw them'. . There can be no genuine, effective independence without the communication resources needed to safeguard it. In the English nineteenth century, for example, authors adopted the concepts of German Romanticism, expressing them most often in debates over the 'literary language' and its debt to a 'common language' the poor people's idiom, sometimes referred to as 'native speech'. 165193 (reprinted in Lacoue-Labarthe's Limitation des modernes (Typographies II) (Paris: Galilee, 1986), pp. 4757; Rebecca Coy, 'A study of Whitman's diction', University of Texas Studies in English, 16 (1936), pp. The arrival of the legislator is proof enough that the law to be laid down will never achieve its desired identity with the laws of nature, and that politics will never reach its goal (which is always that of wresting a realm of necessity from a realm of freedom), and to this extent is probably not simply to be deplored. Santos has to become passionate in order to maintain control. if(cookiePair[0] === name) { Blake, who left off annotating his edition of the Discourses after the eighth address, showed no signs of having registered the new emphasis on the customary contained in that and the previous address. Jose Marti, Obras completas (Habana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 1975), vol. In his preface to The House of Seven Gables (1851), Hawthorne says that: 'When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel.' Timothy Brennan produces a panoramic view of the western history of the national idea and its narrative forms, finally to take his stand with those hybridizing writers like Salman Rushdie whose glory and grotesquerie lie in their celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English language. "CacheDetection.RequestID": "8C9BB9FB0FHW30T168FP", . 13147) does not address the question, though it is very critical of Lyotard. . 10 See, for example, Louise Pound, 'Walt Whitman and Italian music', American Mercury, no. This insight is explored in two very different contexts, Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf and Rachel Bowlby's study of Uncle Tom's Cabin. . 14 See Elie Kedourie, Nationalism (Essex: Anchor Press, 1960), p. 63: '"Only one language," says Schleiermacher, "is firmly implanted in an individual . Herbert Schiller, Communication and Cultural Domination (White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1976), p. 1. My sealed tomb travels in my dreams.57 In part the ambiguities surrounding the use of the term 'multiculturalism' centre around who is considered to be included. Populism, therefore, has an important narrative career in Hispano America, and a long afterlife even when the political culture changes its name. Maitland 42 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Martin Thorn observed in The Constitutional History of England [18878] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908), p. 5. 2930. So the study of contemporary fiction, above all in these neocolonial contexts, is always a comment on the responsible practice of interpreting the images of today how to place them, how to give them perspective, how to discuss the way they reflect a submerged history while turning it into a contemporary, instantaneous shadow. Moreover, all mountains cannot divide up states. The difference between noble and serf was as sharply drawn as possible, but it was in no sense presented as an ethnic difference; it was presented rather as a difference in courage, customs, and education, all of which were transmitted hereditarily; it did not occur to anyone that the origin of all this was What is a nation? If he had succeeded in his principal projects, he would have been looked upon as an intelligence who governed a state as would the spirits' (p. 174). 14, no. Borges, the American writer, is evidently amused, but also fascinated by the paradox of a tradition built on disdain for the past. ** Indeed, as Gellner has pointed out, his account of the rise to power of the plebs is Tribes within nations 33 informed by the very confusion between ancient and modern history which he had himself castigated, as is his manifest opposition to agrarian communism (a doctrine which, curiously enough, had also been justified by reference to Tacitus's Germania)}2 Fustel gradually shifted his attention from ancient history to that of the institutions of early France, some of his lectures at the University of Strasbourg in the 1860s being devoted to the subject. Amidst these exorbitant images of the nation-space in its transnational dimension there are those who have not yet found their nation: amongst them the Palestinians and the Black South Africans. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies, and has coined a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, ambivalence. Classical antiquity had republics, municipal kingdoms, confederations of local republics and empires, yet it can hardly be said to have had nations in our understanding of the term. Certain later poems do confirm this. ibid., p. 12. 20229. ): Bellopheron does not in fact die as a result of the message he carries, and his death is not reported in the Iliad at all. 13 ibid., pp. So Bolingbroke's patriotism stands outside humanism, cultural nationalism, and enlightened rationality. . It's unique I'll say that. For that reason, and in spite of Reynolds's lack of interest in the moral lessons imparted by the fable of a picture, the highest genre of painting is still, as it had been for Shaftesbury, narrative history painting. in J. Derrida, V. Descombes et al.. La Faculte de juger (Paris: Minuit, 1985), pp. 45 If the love matches in Amalia, binding the rival cities of Tucuman and Buenos Aires, and in Martin Riuas, where northern mining interests marry commerce in the capital, are an indication of historical accuracy because they coincide with data on regional alliances, other novels may similarly help to explain not only the project but also the process of bourgeois consolidation through literal and figurative marriage. ), Multiculturalism and the Arts (Sydney: Australia Council, 1986), p. 7. These two sentences thus, unlike the version in Of Politics, give a glimpse of, on the one hand, the possibility of a Mogolian politics, and on the other of a politics anterior to that of today: in both cases, of a non-postal politics. cit., p. 295. William Leggett, who died in 1839 but who has been argued to have been a formative influence upon Whitman,24 had consistently advocated a government of non-intervention, and had done so from the position of one defending the rights of the average man, the 'farming and mechanick interests' whom he, like Whitman, saw as the essence of 'the people'. ; Larzer Ziff, Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America (London and New York: Penguin, 1981), pp. 77 M. Barres, Scenes et Doctrines du Nationalisme (Paris: Emile-Paul, 1902), pp. //]]> That is, 'immediacy' is also the expression of the changeable policies of the institutions which have increasingly established control over the dispersal of images. The nations are not something eternal. Developed by Eliot and Richards, it is an Anglo-American phenomenon with roots in the German moment of Kant and Schiller. But in the following period of national consolidation, which featured programs to populate the empty and ungovernable spaces, we have seen that the fighter was called home to be a father. don yoo tel dem troowth dai dozn belif yoo. A. Kefala, 'Barbecue', in Jurgensen, op. What these writings have in common with Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding's novels is the production of narratives, moral cruxes, a linguistic decorum, and character types which cover the social field of the post-1688 world. It is quite evident, here, that the rationalism of the discourse of natural rights has become entirely inseparable in Reynolds's mind from the rationalism of the civic humanist tradition; for it was that tradition which had drawn up the legal code which failed to allow for perfection and for genius, and which Reynolds is now so anxious to reform. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece (London: Free Association Books, 1987). . Regis Debray, 'Marxism and the national question', New Left Review, no. Edward Said, "The mind of winter, reflections on life in exile', Harpers Magazine, vol. As a result, most of these essays have ended up in another cultural location from where they started often taking up a 'minority' position. Let me attempt to fill one. 12 Tony Tanner, The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature (1965; rpt Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), pp. More valuable by far than common customs posts and frontiers conforming to strategic ideas is the fact of sharing, in the past, a glorious heritage and regrets, and of having, in the future, [a shared] programme to put into effect, or the fact of having suffered, enjoyed, and hoped together. 9 He hints that when the emperor of China ordered the Great Wall to be built and all books before his reign to be burned, he already sensed that a future emperor would erase his epoch-founding work with another new beginning. 'If, asks Pevsner, 'the rhythms of the language differ' in one nation and another 'so much and so tellingly', is there not every reason to assume that the same will occur in art?15 The question is a rhetorical one, but it can hardly have been an English 'distrust of rhetoric' that prevented Barry, an Irish Catholic, from replying 'of course'. The nature of the new code is unambiguous. Even some writers who had written circles around history in the 1960s and 1970s began to experiment with new versions of more traditional forms.14 This is also true of film, as Fredric Jameson shows by measuring the 'enfeebled' postmodern history of glossy nostalgia films in America against the historically dense Latin American cinema he calls 'magic realist'.15 A burden of feeling The return of a repressed historical tradition in Latin American narrative may make us wonder why we had largely accepted the Boom's playfully pessimistic terms as literarily mature, which is perhaps to say consistent with the First World's taste for the postmodern. W.D. It is across such boundaries, both historical and pedagogical, that Martin Thorn places Renan's celebrated essay 'What is a nation?'. For the modern novel, this means precisely the period of market capitalism and the age of exploration, which was also the period of the transformation of the vernaculars into languages of state, the creation of national economies, and the subsequent recognition of nationalism as the dominant political ideology of the bourgeoisie. Like the old Romans, and some few others, their Epic Poem is written on the Earth's surface: England her Mark! Gabriel Monod, who taught with Fustel in later years at the Ecole Normale, denied that his attack on the Germanist interpretation of French history was simply motivated by hostility towards Germany itself, and insisted that his 18618 lectures at Strasbourg had been equally emphatic about the Roman nature of the government of Clovis and his sons.53 This may be true, and yet Fustel's first version of his Histoire des Institutions Politiques de I'Ancienne France: L'Invasion Germanique et la Fin de L'Empire (1875) appeared only five years after the Prussians had themselves invaded France and brought the Second Empire to a close, and in this, his second great work after The Ancient City, Fustel quite simply demolished the Germanist interpretation of French history. But Malone's decision to omit them may itself be an indication of the continuing authority of the civic discourse in the criticism of painting, an authority it maintained in spite of mounting suspicion of its political tendency. [T]he transnationalization process creates an appeal for increasingly similar, ecumenical and universal values, or, to use the terms of Brzezinski, 'a new planetary consciousness,' a new 'harmony,' a 'new world unity' and a new 'consensus.' 9 Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass': The First (1855) Edition, ed. . Marriage not only projected an ideal state, but also helped to realize the family alliances that supported national governments. I refuse the position, shared by most humanists, modernists, and Marxists, that nationalism is an essentially nasty ideological formation. Since universal suffrage had always resulted in a massive royalist or Bonapartist vote, the republic's central task was to counter the priesthood's influence upon the French peasantry by establishing universal, free, lay, primary education. 50 Blest Gana, op. 7 J. Derrida, Dissemination (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981), p. 221. The poet wonders about these questions. In Drum Taps, and in some other poems where death and destruction are allowed to be simply what they are, we may trace the profile of a different voice. Rather, we must try to read him on his own terms, testing out the claims against the performance. But Montesquieu's examples are far from being clear and univocal. 34 Rousseau tells some good stories about this essential feature of the legislator, and especially of Lycurgus, forced to resign all position of power, put up with hostility and eventually leave Sparta in order to enforce his legislation. So leave negotiations to the powers and count only on yourselves . I think this is so, less because he was an officer in Pancho Villa's army (Zapata was clearly too radical an option, just as he would have been for the liberal heroes of romance) than because he was a lover. As he says a little earlier in this same essay: 'a simple and natural conduct can just as easily lead to the aims of government as a more devious one' (p. 173). In this sense he is very similar to the early Lukacs. 'A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. cit., p. 1. It is as if the nationalized subject de Quincy as an Englishman shatters that unity of the self needed and granted by the civil Imaginary. You probably don't know, but I'll tell you in confidence, for you information, that your country, which is now mine too, is based on a gigantic belch. There is here at work an insidious logic which De Man has analysed in a different fragment of Rousseau's political writing, and which can be found taken to an extreme in the Marquis de Sade: briefly, in Rousseau, autonomy is defined in part by independence from other nations but this independence implies that the other nations in turn become dependent on, and jealous of, the 'autonomous' nation, whose autonomy is thus measured in terms of the other it is supposed to ignore. Death-dealing machismo became a thing of the past. More than one story-teller has told it to us, having gathered us into learned fraternities, destined to find out what were our origins . As has been argued persuasively and at length by Foster and Stockley,54 the emphasis on cultural pluralism has often functioned to obscure class differences and has pre-empted the possibilities for structural pluralism. What if it were his own nature repeated? each people would find itself confronted by another neighbouring people pressing in upon it, thus forcing it to form itself internally into a state in order to encounter the other as an armed power (p. 112) and explicitly in the seventh proposition of the Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose: The problem of establishing a perfect civil constitution is subordinate to the problem of a law-governed external relationship with other states, and cannot be solved unless the latter is also solved. The fathers can't afford to eliminate the mothers, but they tend to subsume them and to face the sterile trap of narcissism. Classic realist narratives perhaps, and reluctantly, but not poetry. 1977. 4 Other examples of the dissenting view could (and will) be given. The swift answer is that such writing is invisible in literary and cultural histories and is usually received as sociology (the 'migrant problem' leading inevitably to the migrant as problem) or as oral history (authentic first-hand accounts from marginal groups). In An American Primer, written around 1855 but not published until after the poet's death, he writes: All aboriginal names sound good. A = p.createElement(s); To ensure the compatibility of the customary and the civic discourse, all he needs to do, it seems, is to redefine the 'universal principles of human nature' so as to allow human nature to include whatever in second nature could be described as universal and invariable. Indeed, as Linda Colley has argued, the British government resisted using even the new nationalist symbolic practices just because they might lead to revolution at home. Without the Irresistible romance 89 concept of nationhood the alliances and the stability they brought would be beside the point. The end of politics is the end of politics. S. Sheridan (London: Verso, 1988), pp. 'Local' and 'peculiar' ornament, we recall, is what according to Brown, a writer should ideally 'strip' from his speech, if he is to aspire to 'universal Qualities'. 363 and 373. ), Rereading English (London: Methuen, 1982), p. 18. . The interplay of these factors is everywhere behind contemporary criticism, but rarely expressed openly. Towards the end of the seventh address, this implication is at once reinforced, and justified as compatible with the civic discourse Reynolds seems now almost to have abandoned, by an argument he offers in favour of the notion that a painter should not entirely neglect the ornamental, and thus should to some extent acknowledge the narrow, local, and transitory prejudices of his public. Like other sentimentalists, he was writing what we now call romance when, Lukacs implies, he should have been writing novels. J. J. Smolicz, The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism, Occasional papers, 7, (Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW, 1985), p. 6. It is our loss that in making this book we were unable to add their voices to ours. Simon Bolivar, in Jose Luis Romero (ed. Each essay answers this question differently but there is a moment in Simon During's exposition of the 'civil imaginary' when he suggests that 'part of the modern domination of the life-world by style and civility . In its hands, 'tradition' became what Hobsbawm calls a 'useable past', 25 and the evocation of deep, sacred origins instead of furthering unquestioning, ritualistic reaffirmations of a people (as in epic) becomes a contemporary, practical means of creating a people. 14 For Barry's attack on the climatological theorists, see his Inquiry into the Real and Imaginary Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in England (London, 1775); for endorsements of Barry's arguments, see Hoare, An Enquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England (London, 1806), pp. As the leading spokesman of the old aristocracy, Boulainvilliers attacked the re-Romanization of the state under the Capetian monarchy, and lamented the destruction of the free society founded by the Franks, with its elective kingship and its annual, aristocratic assemblies.18 In an attempt to refute Boulainvilliers, the Abbe Dubos published a Critical History of the Founding of the French Monarchy (1734), which claimed that the Franks had not in fact entered Gaul as military conquerors, but rather as close allies of the Romans. setDisplayBids: function() {}, I, pp. No one objects Finally, he asks: 'Tell me, boy, how do you pronounce that? stylesheet.type = "text/css"; He also 108 Sneja Gunew draws attention to the fact that, unlike the US, Australia has always been able to control its immigration and that, furthermore, some Australians fear the establishment of ethnic enclaves. Leslie Fiedler points out that only several years before he wrote his great romances, Cooper was training himself as a writer by imitating, not the manly historical romancer Walter Scott, but that English gentlewoman and mistress of the domestic psychological novel, Ms Jane Austen. The crucial result of all this was that, in spite of the extreme violence of the customs of the German invaders, the mould which they imposed became, with the passing centuries, the actual mould of the nation. 105, Sept.-Oct. 1977, p. 26. 15 (Fall 1986), pp. . . (Its precondition is of course the technology of letters.) One loves in proportion to the sacrifices to which one has consented, and in proportion to the ills that one has suffered. These were strategies successful enough to help prevent both nationalism and reason gaining a grip on English high literary culture until our own time. I can make the point most easily by turning, in his alphabetical arrangement, to the letter ' V , where we discover that the painters whose names begin with this letter, and who, as Buckeridge puts it, are 'ours' and 'belong' to us, are Henry Venderborcht, John Vander-heydon, Adrian Van-Diest, Sir Anthony Vandyck, William Vander-velde, Francis Vanzoon, Herman Varest, and F. de Vorsterman. See also the response to his essay by Aijaz Ahmad, 'Jameson's Rhetoric of otherness and the "National Allegory'" in Social Text, no. 2, p. 344. 127, for example. 57991. History begins to lose its grip at this point: or rather history (which suffers from an inability to answer the question 'When?' As Durkheim made his preparations, in October 1885, for a visit to Germany, the Right was gaining in strength in France. 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