Transnational Na(rra)tion : Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by
John Dolis
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1611478154
ISBN-13
9781611478150
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 12th, 2015
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
472 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.80 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"—specifically, a foreign culture or nation—as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
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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