...destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical, dynastic realm. . . . Finally it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of...kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings. (16) Anderson's analysis of the character of modern nationalism is of particular interest to Latin...

...if under God, directly so. The gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state. Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of...kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings. These deaths bring us abruptly face to face with the central problem posed by nationalism: what makes...

...insanity of masses of people dying to save the "people" (Foucault, 137). Nationalism makes it possible for "so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings" (Anderson, 16). Limited, because the modern state is "fully, flatly, and evenly operative over each...

...nationalism. "Regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each," he wrote, "the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal...much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings."3 My own approach to the problem of nation making attempts to employ both the new appreciation...

...conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship." He proceeds: "Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes possible, over the past two centuries, for so many...as willingly to die for such limited imaginings." (See also Elshtain, 1991.1 Women's duty is archetypically that of the mothers who have reared the male...

..."sovereign" state later, and would like to bracket this till our reading of "Cyclops." Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of...kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings. (Anderson, Imagined Communities, 7) Which is to say that the imagined horizontal community allows for...

...reconceptualizing issues of Chinese nationalism. Benedict Anderson has astutely observed that nationalism "is imagined as a community, because, regardless of...much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings."32 In The Yenan Way 1 have suggested that the Chinese resistance offers an historical example...

...horizontal comradeship" (ibid.: 7); it is this feeling of authentic connection "that makes it possible . .. for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings" (ibid.). The power that the nation has to inspire such passions of commitment comes from its "transcendent...

...It is "such limited imaginings," Anderson says, that have made it possible in the twentieth century "for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die."55 Joyce's own imaginings, though they do not do justice to the rich ambiguities of nationalism,...

...Letter from Pickens to Pauli Murray of Howard University, Washington, DC, 21 July 1944, Pickens Papers. prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as...as willingly to die for such limited imaginings." 33 Recognizing African Americans' legitimate desire to be full members of the imagined American community,...