A shift towards “historical epistemology” has altered the nature of scholarship on nation and modernity. Departing from objectivist and Eurocentric historiographies, postmodern and postcolonial scholars have begun to reactivate the sedimented practices that naturalized “the nation” and instituted Europe as the original home of m0dernity. As the foundation of modern historical narratives, “the nation” is being revisited by scholars who view it not as a concrete and observable reality but as a modernist style of collective imagination, societal organization, and self-disciplining of citizens.
Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts