Transnational Na(rra)tion : Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolis, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

American literature.

Local Subjects:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Other Title:

Transnational Na(rra)tion

Transnational Na

Place of Publication:

: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of ""American"" identity involves the incorporation of a ""foreign body"" as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a certain alterity, an ""other"" which constitutes the secondary term of a binary structure. ""American"" identity thus finds itself ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual chapters ar

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pre-lude""; ""Overture""; ""First Movement""; ""Second Movement""; ""Third Movement""; ""Fourth Movement""; ""Finale""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61147-817-0

OCLC:

910445966