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Autore |
Dolis John |
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Titolo |
Transnational Na(rra)tion : Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Transnationalism in literature |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
American Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pre-lude""; ""Overture""; ""First Movement""; ""Second Movement""; ""Third Movement""; ""Fourth Movement""; ""Finale""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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