Transnational Na(rra)tion

Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
Cover of the book Transnational Na(rra)tion by John Dolis, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Author: John Dolis ISBN: 9781611478167
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Publication: May 12, 2015
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Language: English
Author: John Dolis
ISBN: 9781611478167
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication: May 12, 2015
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Language: English

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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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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