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

By John Dolis

Book information

Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781611478167, 9781611478150
LCC
PS169.N35 D65 2015
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1137106 bytes)
Pages
213\213
Time added
2023-08-08 06:57:22
AmericanAmerican literature -- 19th century -- History andin literature. ; Transnationalism in literature.

Description

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 are devoted to Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.

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