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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