Abstract
There is a general tendency to associate a national literature with a nation-state, a link that at times verges on the mystical. Yet it is common knowledge that there are considerably more sociological nations than nation-states, suggesting that often there is more than one nation in a given country and likely more than one national literature. This essay scrutinizes the real contours of the national bodies of writing produced in multination states in an attempt to develop a method for examining literary production other than the “national literature” paradigm—more specifically, federal literatures.
First Page
14
Last Page
25
Recommended Citation
Albert, Braz. 2018. "Federal Literatures: Toward a Theory of Literary Intranationality." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 38, (5): pp.14-25. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss5/7
