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Transnational Na(rra)tion

Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
  • ISBN-13: 9781611478150
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By John Dolis
  • Price: AUD $204.00
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2015
  • Format: Hardback 212 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
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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.
Acknowledgments Pre-lude: Performance Criticism Overture: Benjamin Franklin: A House is not a Home First Movement: Washington Irving: The Cutting Edge of Gross Anatomy Second Movement: Frederick Douglass: Domestic Hardships and Capital Gains Third Movement: Louisa May Alcott: The Dividends of Foreign Exchange Fourth Movement: Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Citizen of Somewhere Else Finale: Mark Twain: Beauty and the (B)east Bibliography Index About the Author
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