Multiple Forms of (National) Belonging: Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
A nation which had never previously existed was about to win its freedom, catapulting us into a world which, although it had five thousand years of history, although it had invented the game of chess and traded with Middle Kingdom Egypt, was nevertheless quite imaginary; into a mythical land, a country which would never exist except by the efforts of a phenomenal collective willÂ—except in a dream we all agreed to dream. Â—Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (129-130)