The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings / / by Dalia M.A. Gomaa

• Autore: Gomaa Dalia M.A
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 195 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/8
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—20th century; Sociology; America—Literatures; Literature—Philosophy; Culture—Study and teaching; Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature; Gender Studies; North American Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory
• Classificazione: LIT000000LIT003000LIT004020LIT004290
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. The Non-National Subject in The Language of Baklava and An American Brat -- 2. Re-imagining the US National Time in West of the Jordan and The Last Generation -- 3. Moments of (Un)belonging: the Spatial Configuration of Home(land) in The Time between Places: Stories that Weave in and out of Egypt and America and The Namesake -- 4. Transnational Allegories and the Non-national Subject in The Agero Sisters and The Night Counter -- Afterword.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study examines contemporary narratives by Arab-American, South-Asian American, Chicana, and Cuban-American women writers. Gomaa argues that the disparate histories of Arabs, South Asians, Chicanas, and Cubans in the U.S. unfold new non-national sites for affiliations and identifications that unsettle notions of a unified American national space. In each chapter a South-Asian American, Chicana, or Cuban-American text is paired with an Arab-American text to examine sites of ambivalence, which problematize an individual's sense of belonging to an "imagined community." The author proposes a redefinition of imagined communities to imagined transnational communities, which are formed beyond the geographical boundaries of a single nation and are not nation-centered. This study values Arab-American writings as a potential terrain to expand American Studies, and calls attention to Arab-American feminist strategies that contribute to theoretical debates by and about American women writers.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature
• ISBN: 1-137-49626-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255228703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, . 2634-579X