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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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Pubblicazione: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9358 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature | |
Transnationalism in literature | |
American literature - History and criticism - 19th century | |
English | |
Languages & Literatures | |
American Literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pre-lude""; ""Overture""; ""First Movement""; ""Second Movement""; ""Third Movement""; ""Fourth Movement""; ""Finale""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author"" |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Altri titoli varianti: | Transnational Na(rra)tion |
Transnational Na | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Transnational Na(rra)tion ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-61147-817-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809452903321 |
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