Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses
the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and
community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how
the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano,
Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin
Hamid shape protagonists' complex transnational subjectivities,
which exist between or outside national frameworks but are
nevertheless interpellated through the nation-state and through
particular myths about liberal, sentimental, or cosmopolitan
subjects. The notion of ambivalent transnational belonging yields
insights into the affective appeal of the transnational as a
category of analysis, as an aesthetic experience, and as an idea of
belonging. This means bringing the transnational into conversation
with the aesthetic and the affective so we may fully address the
new conceptual challenges faced by literary studies due to the
transnational turn in American studies.
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