It's not new, but it's still a good critical overview of nation and nationalism in postcolonial lit. and you may have already read it: Leela Gandhi's 'Postcolonial Theory: a critical introduction', Columbia Univ. Press 1998

You can try the following: Bloom, William (1990) Personal identity, national identity and international relations;

you can try these books

Imagined Communities - Benedict Anderson

Provincializing Europe - dipesh chakraborty

When is the Nation ?

Partha Chatterjee Omnibus - oxford university press

In other words, imagine that this study would be more appropriate. in the case of study in Brazil

all a bit like the literature of information. The country of Portugal.

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You can try Homi K. Baba's Nation and Narration

Anything from Rodopi editions on nationality. Joep Leersen and the company

Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Spivak and Franz Fannon are some writers to quote

Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature. London: Verso, 1992.

American Literature 65.3 (1993). [Special issue on "Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill"]

Bhabha, Homi K. (U of Sussex). "Introduction: Narrating the Nation." In Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi K. Bhabha. London: Routledge, 1990. 2002. 1-7.*

_____. "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation." In Bhabha, Nation and Narration: Post-Structuralism and the Culture of National Identity. New York, 1990. 291-322.

_____. "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation." In Bhabha, The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994. 139-170.

_____. "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 176-77.*

_____. "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation." From Bhabha, The Location of Culture. In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale. Blackwell, 2006. 716-33.*

Brânzeu, Pia. "Ventriloquizing the Past: Nationalistic Dimension of Intertextuality." BAS (1997): 27-34.*

Brennan, Timothy. "The National Longing for Form." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 170-75.*

Cartelli, Thomas. Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. London: Routledge, 1999.

Chernov, Igor. "National Literature: Theoretical Marginalia." Poetics Today 12.4 (1991): 769-772.*

Craig, Cairns. The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.*

Dennis, Ian. Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997.

Docherty, Thomas. "Tragedy and the Nationalist Condition of Criticism." Textual Practice 10.3 (1996): 479-506.*

During, Simon. "Literature—Nationalism's Other? The Case for Revision." In Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi K. Bhabha. London: Routledge, 1990. 2002. 138-53.*

Eagleton, Terry. Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature. (Reviewed by Richard Bjorson) In Comparative Literature 45.3 (1993).*

Even-Zohar, Itamar. "La función de la literatura en la creación de las naciones de Europa." In Avances en Teoría de la Literatura. Ed. Darío Villanueva. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1994. 357-77.*

Goddu, Teresa A. Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.*

Hadfield, Andrew. Literature, Politics, and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance. 1994.

Joughin, John, ed. Shakespeare and National Culture. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997.

Lawson, Alan. "The Discovery of Nationality in Australian and Canadian Literatures." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 167-69.*

Lloyd, David. Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.

_____. "Ethnic Cultures, Minority Discourse and the State." Unpublished Ms. 1992.

Lowell, James Russell. "Nationality in Literature." 1849. Selection. In The Great Critics. Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton. 1932. 548-50.*

Mathews, Cornelius. "Nationality in Literature." 1847. In American Literature, American Culture. Ed. Gordon Hutner. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 59-66.*

Mealor, Simon, and Philip Schwyzer, eds. Archipelagic Identities: Writing Nation and Region in the Early Modern British Isles. Forthcoming 2004.

Moretti, Franco. "The Novel, the Nation-State." From Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900. In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale. Blackwell, 2006. 734-46.*

Mulhern, Francis. "English Reading." In Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi K. Bhabha. London: Routledge, 1990. 2002. 250-64.*

Thoreau, H. D. "A Writer's Nationality and Individual Genius." In Early Essays and Miscellanies. Ed. Joseph J. Moldenhauer and Edwin Moser, with Alexander C. Kern. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975. (Nationality; Poet; The self; Shakespear; Imagination and fancy)

Parker, Theodore. "The American Scholar." 1849. In American Literature, American Culture. Ed. Gordon Hutner. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 66-88.*

Paulding, James Kirk. "National Literature." 1820, 1835. In American Literature, American Culture. Ed. Gordon Hutner. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 24-25.*

Poster, Jem. "Literature, Nationalism and the Wider World." European English Messenger 3.2 (1994): 37-39.

Rubio Jiménez, Jesús. "El tercer centenario del Quijote en Aragón: entre el regionalismo y la melancolía nacionalista." In Cervantes en el espejo del tiempo. Ed. Mª Carmen Marín Pina. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2010. 367-92.*

Scholz, Susanne. Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. (Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh...)

Sethi, Rumina. Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.* (India, Nationalism, Gandhi, Raja Rao, Kanthapura ).

Stovall, Tyler, and Georges van den Abbeele, eds. French Civilization and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race. New York, Oxford: Lexington Books, 2003.*

Williams, Mark. "The Novel as National Epic: Wilson Harris, Salman Rushdie, Keri Hulme." In The Commonwealth Novel since 1960. Ed. Bruce King. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1981. 185-97.

Christopher Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning"

Dr Chandra, I suggest you the great book: SOMMER, Doris. Fondational fictions: The National Romances of Latin America. University California Press, 1993.

You may try Frantz Fanon. His advocacy on anti-colonialism might help a lot in your thoughts about nationalism.

please do read the books of Partha Chatterjee on Nationalism. Butler and Spivak on nationalism and of course - imagined communities by anderson and nation and narration by bhabha.

Michel Foucault's ideas on subjectivity and the self would help you.

Thank You one and all for helping me out . José Angel García Landa's comprehensive list is very much helpful..In fact I must say that each contribution is helping in forging my way ahead. Just to share- I got one more book- Nationalism by Rabindra Nath Tagore yesterday. This thin Booklet is free online and gives us first hand thoughts of a messianic thinker who experienced colonialism and visioned its aftermaths. worth reading is his poem "The Sunset of the Century" which appears at the last.