Homi K. Bhabha - Nation and Narration

Nation and Narration

edited by
Homi K. Bhabha

First published 1990

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John Barrell is Professor of English in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex.

Gillian Beer is Professor of Literature and Narrative at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Her publications include Darwin's Plots (1983), George Eliot (1986), and Arguing with the Past (1989).

Geoffrey Bennington is Senior Lecturer in French at Sussex University. He is author of Sententiousness and the Novel (1985), Lyotard: Writing the Event (1988), and of forthcoming books in French on Rousseau and Derrida

Homi Bhabha is a lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. His collection of essays, The Location of Culture, is to be published by Routledge.

Rachel Bowlby teaches English at Sussex University. She is author of Just Looking (1985) on femininity, consumerism, and the novel, and Virginia Woolf: Feminist Destinations (1988).

Timothy Brennan currently teaches English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University and is a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. His publications include Salman Rushdie and the Third World (1989).

Simon During lectures in English at the University of Melbourne.

Sneja Gunew teaches in Literary Studies at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. She has edited Displacements: Migrant Storytellers, Displacements 2: Multicultural Storytellers, and co-edited Beyond the Echo: Multicultural Women's Writing and Telling Ways: Australian Women's Experimental Writing.

Francis Mulhern teaches at Middlesex Polytechnic in north London. His publications include The Moment of 'Scrutiny'.

Bruce Robbins maintains a professional affiliation with the English Department of Rutgers University. He is the editor of Intellectuals; Aesthetics, Politics, Academics (forthcoming).

David Simpson is Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His most recent books are The Politics of American English, 1776-1850 (1986) and Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement (1987).

James Snead was, until his death in the spring of 1989, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include Figures of Division: William Faulkner's Major Novels (1987).

Dons Sommer , Professor of Romance Languages and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, Massachusetts, has published on a variety of Latin American writers, and on Walt Whitman. She is also the author of One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels (1983).

Martin Tfaom is a translator and freelance writer, working at present on Republics, Nations and Tribes: The Ancient City and the Modern World, a study to be published by Verso.