nation – Little Bristling Soul

Narratives that originate at border crossings cannot be bound by
national borders, languages, and literary and critical traditions. Born of crisis and change, suffering alternately from amnesia and too much
remembering, and precariously positioned at the interstices of different spaces, histories, and languages, they seek to name and configure cultural and literary production in their own terms and to enter novel forms of inter /transcultural dialogue

Azade Seyhan, Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton NJ & Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001).