Literature: A Means of Production and Reflection of Nationalistic Ideal

This article claims that literatures work as means of production and reflection of nationalistic ideology. Ithelps in the production and reflects ideology like nationalism, globalism, cosmopolitanism, humanism, internationalism, and so on. To discuss many ideologies in this short article is not possible; I, therefore, will be mainly concentrating on the nationalistic ideology reflected in various works of literary art. Literature is something that reflects the condition of human in the society; it reflects through ideology and influences the society socially and politically. Literature, thus, creates a world out of words.As an ideology nationalism involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a nation; it refers to a strong feeling of love and pride in one's country. From socio-political perspective, nationalism denotes a policy based on a strong desire for political independence by a country colonized by another country. A quest for nationalism means a quest for identity. Moreover, a strong love shown by the people for a certain cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and other such types of groups, to which they belong is a kind of nationalistic feeling. Several diverse conceptions come under the concept of nationalistic ideal. Various definitions of nationalism given by different people--Frantz Fanon, John Stuart Mill, Craig Calhoun, and Michael Ignatieff--help understand that nationalism is an overarching umbrella term encompassing many concepts which this article discusses.