The non-national in contemporary American literature
Subtitle: ethnic women writers and problematic belongings
By: Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Series: American literature readings in the twenty-first century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137502865
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; National characteristics, American, in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; American literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Women authors; Minority authors; Belonging (Social psychology) in literature
Description: "This study argues that the notion of Americanness is constructed nationally within the U.S. geographical space, as well as transnationally outside that space. The transnational perception of the U.S. nation-space makes possible ambivalent positionings, which the author describes as non-national sites that challenge singular national affiliations and identifications"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: 1. The Non-National Subject in The Language of Baklava and An American Brat; title: 2. Re-imagining the US National Time in West of the Jordan and The Last Generation; title: 3. Moments of (Un)belonging: the Spatial Configuration of Home(land) in The Time between Places: Stories that Weave in and out of Egypt and America and The Namesake; title: 4. Transnational Allegories and the Non-national Subject in The Agero Sisters and The Night Counter; title: Afterword.