​"In the place of the polarity of prefigurative self-generating nation
"in-itself`" and extrinsic other nations,
​the performative introduces a temporality of the "in-between".  
The boundary that marks the nation's selfhood interrupts the self-generating time of national production and disrupts the signification of the people as homogeneous."
Homi K Bhabha (1994. p212)