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Languages, politics and field theory — the question of the autonomy of small literatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Clémence Scalbert-Yücel
Clémence Scalbert-Yücel*
Affiliation:
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
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∗Email: C.Scalbert-Yucel@exeter.ac.uk
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In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson stressed the role that literature, and particularly the development of the novel, actually played in building a nation as an “imagined community.” Others have emphasized how building a national literature has often gone hand in hand with the creation of a national identity (e.g. Thiesse; Jusdanis). All have underlined the strong relationship between nationalism and literature: literature is a concrete tool that builds the nation as a community; literature also serves to build and spread a national identity.

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Special Section: The Autonomy of Minority Literature
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , May 2012 , pp. 315 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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