TY - JOUR AU - Ilaria Puggioni PY - 2013/06/07 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A desire creating the Nation: narrating memories for imaginary homelands JF - Between JA - BW VL - 3 IS - 5 SE - The Theme of Desire DO - 10.13125/2039-6597/915 UR - https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/915 AB - Using the theoretical framework developed by Glissant, Bhabha, Said, Rushdie, and Chamoiseau (among others), the paper focuses on ‘desire’ as the driving force behind the foundation of a 'nation' emancipating itself from Colonial regime through narration, and building its own identity. The novel is the means to express the desire to actualize an ’imaginary homeland’ with the stories and memories of places historically unexpressed and forgotten; Stories and memories, which are intertwined by "organic intellectuals" driven by the desire to know their past, to rediscover it, and to better define themselves in the present, and above all in the future. ER -