Babel. The Global Community Imagined Through a Multi-Voiced Story

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Georgetown University (German Department), course: Theorizing Culture, language: English, abstract: While the structure of narration used in the 19th and early 20th century to imagine a national community and to create an identity was one characterized by linearity, chronology, and homogeneity, current mass c...