Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Culler, Jonathan

Titel

Anderson and the Novel

Ist Teil von

• Diacritics, 1999-12, Vol.29 (4), p.20-39

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...] Renan feels no need to tell his readers what these to-have-been forgotten things are. Anderson's work can lead us to realize that what is distinctive about the novel, about its formal adumbration of the space of a community, is its open invitation to readers of different conditions to become insiders, even while the novel raises as a possibility the distinction between insider and outsider, friend and foe, that becomes the basis of political developments.16 This gives the novel a richer role as condition of possibility of the nation than it is likely to retain if we shift, as readers of Anderson seem inclined to do, from the form of the novel as condition of possibility of imagining the nation to the content of novels as representations of the nation.