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

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

Dolis, John

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Literary CriticismAnthropology19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1611478154
ISBN13: 9781611478150
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: May 12 2015
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
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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