Transnational Na(rra)tion - Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2015
Authors:	John Dolis
Dimensions:	230 x 164 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-61147-815-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-61147-815-4
Barcode:	9781611478150

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