English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Riz Ahmed
2 Mar 2018
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Lecture 43 - identity & community: nationalism, colonialism, orientalism. Synonymous is community but has different connotations is nation. Think the way nation and identity tie into everyday life. Nation and state often work together but are not the same thing. No matter how small your nation may be, you will meet a fraction of that population over your lifetime, yet you still feel that connectedness with someone from the nation in which you live. Nation social group existing within a state. Can think of nation as an interpellation. Printing press for important for the development of nationalism, because before this literacy was not as widespread, and the popular language was latin. Latin became a specially language for the church later, and english became the predominate language for the world. Justification of these were presented through popular culture. In doing so, it would enrich those nations as well as england itself.
