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unisonance establishes a common ground for transforming the techno-gender assemblage.
Redfield argues that nationalisms "typically cultivate sites and occasions of mourning," that function to create "unisonance," or the impression of a united collective voice that puts the present generation in touch with the forefathers of the past through an aesthetic project.
However, unlike the unisonance of the nation, Redfield also signals the "mingled synchrony and tension" (45) that characterizes the relationship between the national and the global, one that in the almost ten years since Redfield's chapter, has only continued to become more exaggerated.
Bhabha calls pedagogical national address, the sound effects evoke an alternative national unisonance in the text, which is akin to his concept of the performative nation.
I argue that it is not Rosa's fragmenting allegorical figure that produces a "national unity" in this novel, and not even the vision of the Battle of Hastings, but that there are certain voices and sound effects involved in the recurring image of ghosts which are responsible for creating a momentary national unisonance.
Benedict Anderson describes the singing of a national anthem as an "experience of simultaneity" in which "people wholly unknown to one another utter the same verses to the same melody." Anderson calls this experience "
unisonance," and it provides an example of the political misuse of song Cavarero deplores.
Unisonance is the simultaneous response of many people to emblems of the nation, which is well illustrated by an excerpt from a letter written during the Mexican American War.
Military personnel wear the same uniforms and march as a unit to one drum beat, two examples of unisonance. In contrast to the U.S.
Therefore, this fantastic scenario provides two allegories that speak about the Indian nation in Midnight's Children: first, the body of Saleem Sinai, which, since the narrator, born exactly at the stroke of midnight, "had been mysteriously handcuffed to history" (9), and second, the voices of midnight's children, the extraordinary concerto of "national
unisonance," which literally embodies the imagined community of the Indian nation.