Theories of 
Nation, Nationalism and National Identity 
Important Issues for Discussion
重要討論議題
  1. General Introduction 總論：

    2. 國家形成－歷史、語言、政府、國家主體、國家（民族）主義 . 
     
  2. 種族、性別、階級（國家＋後殖民主義、性別研究、馬克思主義）
Abstracts of Important Writings
  1. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. rev. ed. NY: Verso, 1991  Chaps. 1-3

    2.  
  2. Balibar, Etienne & Immanuel Wallenstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. NY: Verso, 1991.  "The Nation Form" 

    3.  
  3. Guibernau, Montserrat Nationalisms: The Nation-State and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century Introd. ; Chaps 2-3

    4.  
  4. Brennan "The National Longing for Form"

    5.  
  5. [假台灣人專輯] ． 《島嶼邊緣》2.4 (1993.7). 

    6.  
  6. 台灣本土運動與台灣主體辯論
Index: 

I. General Theory and History 

II. Nationalism, imperialism and postcolonialism 

III. National Identity and Immigration 

IV. Nationalism and Sexuality 

V. Nations and National cultures 

  1. Asia 
  2. India 
  3. Taiwan/China 
  4. Hong Kong 
  5. Canada 
  6. the Carribbean
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This bibliography was first prepared for the course  國家敘述與後殖民論述. offered in Fall,1996 in the Comparative Literature Graduate Program of Fu Jen University.  Kate Liu 
 * -- Those selected for course discussion 

I. General Theory and History

*Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. rev. ed. NY: Verso, 1991. 

Anthias, Floya & Nira Yuval-Davis. Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle. NY: Routledge, 1992. (examples from UK) 

Balakrishnan, Gopal. "The National Imagination." New Left Review 211(1995): 56-69. 
---, ed. Mapping the Nation. Introd. Benedict Anderson. NY: Verso, 1996. 

*Balibar, Etienne & Immanuel Wallenstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. NY: Verso, 1991. 1.  "The Nation Form";2.  "Racism and Nationalism" 

Buell, Frederick. National Culture and the New Global System. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. 

Davis, Horace B. Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism. NY: Monthly Review P, 1978. (discussion of theories of Stalin, Trotsky, Sultan Guliev, Fanon and Amilcar Cabral.) 

Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. NY: Cornell UP, 1983.  
--sees the social roots of nationalism in industrial social organization. 

*Guibernau, Montserrat. Nationalisms: The Nation-State and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. 

Hobsbawm, E.J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. NY: Columbia UP, 1990. 

Hutchinson, John & Anthony D. Smith. Nationalism(Oxford Readers). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 

James, Paul. Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community. London: Sage, 1996. (A theoretical survey) 

Tomlinson, John. Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1991. 

Woolf, Stuart, ed. Nationalism in Europe 1815 to the present: A Reader. NY: Routledge, 1996. (contains a review of Gellner and Anderson) 

For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism. Beacon, 1996. 

卡西爾，恩斯特． 《國家的神話》． 范進等譯． 台北：桂冠，1992． 

《當代》95 .3.1(1994) [ 國家意識與民族認同專輯] （包括美、法、義）。 
 

郭洪紀． 《新國家主義》． 台北：陽智，1996． 

 回目錄 

II. Nationalism, imperialism and postcolonialism

*Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. NY: Verso, 1992 (Includes: "Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory.'" 95-122) 

Anthias, Floya & Nira Yuval-Davis. Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour, and Class, and the Anti-racist Struggle. NY: Routeledge, 1992. 

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. NY: Routledge, 1989. 

--- et al, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. NY: Routledge, 1995. (Part V Nationalism) 

Azim, Firdous. The Colonial Rise of the Novel. NY: Routledge, 1993. 

Bhabha, Homi. "Representation and the Colonial Text: A Critical Exploration of Some Form of Mimeticism" The Theory of Reading. Ed. Frank Bloversmith. Brighton: Harvester, 1984. 

---, ed. Nation and Narration. NY: Routledge, 1990. 
(includes: Renan, "What is a Nation?" 8-22

*Brennan, "The National Longing for Form." 44-70 
During, "Literature: Nationalism's Other? The Case for Revision." 138-53. 
*Bhabha, "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation." 291-322.)
Eagleton, et al. Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990. 

*Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. NY: Penguin, 1967. 

*Jameson, Fredric. "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capital." Social Text (Fall 1986): 65-88. 

Radhakrishnan, R. Diasporic Meditations: Between Home and Location. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1996. 

*Reiss, Timothy J. "Mapping Identities: Literature, Nationalism, Colonialism." American Literary History 4.4 (1992): 649-77. 
(An interesting critique of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature & Nation and Narration)
*Sprinker, Michael. "The National Question: Said, Ahmad, Jameson." Public Culture 6(1993): 3-29. 

For the Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism. Beacon Press. 

Young, Robert. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. NY: Routledge, 1995. 

 回目錄 

III. National Identity and Immigration

*Ramirez, Bruno. "The Perils of Assimilation: Toward a Comparative Analysis of Immigration, Ethnicity and National Identity in North America." From 'Melting Pot' to Multiculturalism: The Evolution of Ethnic Relations in the United States and Canada. Bulzoni Editore, 1990: 143-68. 
Smith, Susan. "Immigration and Nation-Building in Canada and the United Kingdom." Constructions of Race, Place and Nation. Ed. Peter Jackson & Jan Penrose. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. 

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IV. Nationalism and Sexuality

*Parker, Andrew, et al, eds. Nationalisms and Sexualities. NY: Routledge, 1992.
 (Spivak "Woman in Difference: Mahasweta Devi's 'Douloti the Bountiful.'" 96-120.

*Garber "The Occidental Tourist: M. Butterfly and the Scandal of Transvestism" 121-46. 
Eve K. Sedgwick. "Nationalisms and Sexualities in the Age of Wilde." 235-245. 
*Heng, Geraldine and Janadas Devan. "State Fatherhood: The Politics of Naitonalism, Sexuality and Race in Singapore.")
《騷動》． １(1996)． 〔女人．國家與政黨〕 

 回目錄 

V. Nations and National cultures

A. Asia

Dissanayake, Wimal, ed. Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. 
Lim, Shirley. Writing Southeast Asia in English. London: Skoob, 1994. 

 回目錄 

  

B. India

Chartterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? Zed Books Ltd., 1986. 
---. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. 

 回目錄 

  

C. Taiwan /China

黃文雄． 《台灣．國家的條件》． 台北：前衛，1990． 
———． 《中國解體論》． 台北：自立晚報，1992． 
張京媛編． 《後殖民理論與文化認同》． 台北：麥田，1995． 
張茂桂等． 《族群關係與國家認同》． 台北：業強，1993． 
（包括〈省籍問題與民族主義〉）
戴國煇 ． 《台灣結與中國結：睪丸理論與自立．共生的構圖》． 台北：遠流，1994． 
鄭樹森編． 《文化批評與華語電影》．台北：麥田，1995． 
鄭明琍． 《當代台灣政治文學論》． 台北︰時報，1994． 

*[假台灣人專輯] ． 《島嶼邊緣》2.4 (1993.7). 

*〔邱貴芬與廖朝陽論辯〕． 《典律與文學教學》． 主編：陳東榮、陳長房． 中壢：中央大學，1996． 
*《中外文學》273 (1995 Feb)． 〔台灣文學的動向〕．及後續274． 
廖咸浩. 《在解構與解體之間徘徊－－台灣現代小說中「中國身分」的轉變 

 回目錄 

  

D. Hong Kong

*周蕾．〈殖民者與殖民者之間〉． 《寫在家國之外》． Hong Kong: Oxford UP, 1995． 

 回目錄 

  

E. Canada

Birdalsingh, Frank. Novels and the Nation: Essays in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Tsar, 1995. 
Davey, Frank. Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novels since 1967. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993. Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Cinema and Nation. 2.2-2.3(1993). 

 回目錄 

  

F. the Carribbean

Harney, Stefano. Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora,. London: Zed Books, 1996. 

回目錄 

 

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