Term of Award
Spring 2020
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Literature
Committee Chair
Joe Pellegrino
Committee Member 1
Dustin Anderson
Committee Member 2
Gautam Kundu
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the relationship between the individual and the nation in Tash Aw’s Map of the Invisible Worldand Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Incorporated Benedict Anderson’s theory of “imagined communities” into the reading of both of the novels, this thesis discusses the limitation of nationalism and the imagination of individuals, aiming to show that it is the diversity of a nation that turns the stagnant imagined communities into fluid imagining communities.
OCLC Number
1157345535
Catalog Permalink
https://galileo-georgiasouthern.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01GALI_GASOUTH/1fi10pa/alma9916336286502950
Recommended Citation
Chang, Yu Chia, "Imagined Communities: The Individual and the Nation in Aw's Map of the Invisible World and Rushdie's Midnight's Children" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2067.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/2067
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
