Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Willful citizens. Negotiating Americanness and renarrativizing the "national symbolic" in the American Renaissance : Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas
- Playfully political : the female citizen-in-process in Gail Scott's Heroine
- Willfulness and the Wayward citizen : Philip Roth's American Trilogy
- Precarious citizens. Precariousness and the ethics of narration : Etel Adnan's In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country and Sitt Marie Rose
- Narratives of unhoming, displacement, and reluctaion : George Eliott Clarke's Whylah Falls and the Africadian community in Nova Scotia
- Citizenship unhinged : securitization, identity management, and the migrant in Amitava Kumar's Passport Photos
- Queer citizens. Sexual citizenship and the transgressive body : Djuna Barne's Nightwood
- Queer migration and citizenship in Caribbean Canadian writing : Diionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here and Shani Mootno's Valmiki's Daughter
- Queer(ing the) nation : ACT UP and AIDS activism in Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble and Rat Bohemia
- Diasporic and indigenous citizens. Narrating contested spaces : denizens and resident alliens of the (new) metropolis in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Diinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- Exile, migration, and the "poetics of relation" : Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Dany Laferriere's The Return
- Citizenship deferred : Cherokee Freedmen versus Cerokee Nation in Shannon Ewel Foster's Abraham's Well and Tiya Miles's Ties That Bond The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom.