Nation in imagination : essays on nationalism, sub-nationalisms, and narration / edited by C. Vijayasree ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I : Re-imaging the Nation
Nationalism and the imagination /Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Re-imagining communities /Helen Tiffin -- Nationalism and pecularities of the Indian /Aijaz Ahmad -- Varieties of nationalism : culture and resistance in the Indian English novel /Satish C. Aikant -- Benedict Anderson revisited /Tim J. Cribb -- British orientalism and the Hindu nation : Robert Southey's palimpsest of Kehama, 1800-1810 /Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- Nation, literature and institutional change /Leslie Monkman -- A roadmap to civilianisation /Probal Dasgupta -- The emperor's new clothes /Bill Ashcroft

Section 2 : De-centring the Nation
The Caledonian diaspora in Australia : A foot in each camp /Susan Cowan -- From empire to empire?: writing the transnational Anglo-Indian self in Australia /Debjani Ganguly -- Gendering imagination : stories by some Canadian 'Mothers of the nation' /Wendy Robbins -- Ghost spaces, living histories : memory and photography in contemporary native North America Women's poetry /Jennifer Andrews -- Woman and nation in the works of contemporary female Egyptian writers /Sella Borg Barthet -- Fabricating community : local, national and global in Three Indian novels /Paul Sharrad -- Subversive migrant labour in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's White Teeth /Devon Campbell-Hall -- The nation and the Indian tribes : a diachronic view /Ivy Imogene Hansdak