Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction: Inner Territories -- Troubled Territory: Thinking the Nation in an Era of Globalization -- Disciplines in Motion: World Literature and the Return of the National -- Nations and Subjects -- Psychoanalysis and the World -- Melancholia's Map and Genre's Memory: Models for the Reading of Fantasmatic Nations -- National Ends, Global Forms, and the Novel of Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism -- 2 - National Imaginaries, Global Flows, and Uncanny Repetitions: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the Postcolonial Novel -- Empire's Elsewhere -- The Time Line of the Nineteenth Century: Racial Evolution and Imperial Degeneration -- Freud, Fiction, and the Uncanny -- Conrad's Ghosts and Achebe's Arrow of God -- Fallen Nationalism in V. S. Naipaul's -- Changing the Canon: David Dabydeen's -- 3 - The Soul of Nationhood: W.E. B. Du Bois and the Psychic Politics of Place -- Race, Nation, and the Problem of Time -- The Double Form of Double Consciousness -- Memory's Textuality: The Psychic Work of Allegory -- Novel History, Novel Politics -- 4 - Ghostly Forms: Race, Nation, and Genre in Frantz Fanon -- Fanon's Afterlife -- Subject to Time, Ghosted by Race -- Fantasy Forms: Race, Culture, and Gender in the Colonial Imaginary -- The Animate Form of the Nation: Fetish as Form -- The Forms of Becoming: Writing the Nation in Studies in a Dying Colonialism and The Wretched of the Earth -- Ghostreading Wretched -- 5 - New Nations, New Novels -- Untimely Tellings -- Nation and Allegory -- Bodies of Change -- Allegorizing Apartheid: History, Nation, and the Novels of J. M. Coetzee -- 6 - My Nation, My Object: Severo Sarduy's Fantasmatic Cuba -- Cobra's Roots and Routes -- Beginnings: New Nations, New Novels, and New Men.

France and "the Mind of Spanish": Sarduy's Encounter with Lacan -- Look Away, Look Awry: The Visual Politics of National Sentiment -- Transvestites and the National Body -- National Transvestism: Cuba's Indian Form and the Cultural Aesthetic of Kitsch -- Postscript: Remapping the Nation - The map was in my head. -- Notes -- Index -- Cultural Memory in the Present.