Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-241) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Nostalgia: politics of the past. 1. 'The invention of tradition' -- 2. The mysterious (dis)appearance of tradition -- Part II. Madness: in the ruins of dream and memory. 3. Semiology of madness -- 4. Semiotics of tyranny -- Part III. Narrating the nation: time, history, story. 5. History -- 6. Story -- Epilogue. Post-national impulses.
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