The address to nation as narration stresses the insistence of political power and cultural authority in what Derrida describes as the irreducible excess of the syntactic over the semantic. What emerges as an effect of such incomplete signification is a turning of boundaries and limits in to the in-between spaces through which the meanings of cultural and political authority are negotiated. It is from such narrative positions between cultures and nations,theories and texts,the political,the poetic and the painterly,the past and the present,that Nation and Narration seeks to affirm and extend FrantzFanons revolutionary credo:National consciousness,which is not nationalism,is the only thing that will give us an international dimension. It is this international dimension both within the margins of the nation-space and in the boundaries in-between nations and peoples that the authors of this book have sought to represent in their essays.
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