Table of Contents

CONTENTS Preface 1. Grounds of Comparison 2. On Imagined Communities 3. Anderson and the Novel 4. Bogeyman: Benedict Anderson's Derivative Discourse 5. Imagi-Nation: The Imagined Community and the Aesthetics of Mourning 6. Be-longing and Bi-lingual States 7. Authority, Solidarity, and the Political Economy of Identity: The Case of the United 8. Anderson's Utopia 9. Ghostly Comparisons: Anderson's Telescope 10. The Desire for the Sovereign and the Logic of Reciprocity in the Family of Nations 11. Response

About the Author

Pheng Cheah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell; among his many books is Structuralist Poetics.