Nasser Mufti

Bio

Nasser Mufti works in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is the author of Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Northwestern University Press, 2018). He is currently researching Pan-African theories of the nineteenth century.

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Civil Wartime

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Ever since the publication of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, the phrase “empty, homogenous time” (borrowed from Walter Benjamin), has become synonymous with the historical imagination of nationalism.

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