The non-national in contemporary American literature : ethnic women writers and problematic belongings / Dalia M.A. Gomaa.
"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-nationa...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | American literature readings in the 21st century.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Non-national Subject in The Language of Baklava and An American Brat; 2 Reimagining the US National Time in West of the Jordan and The Last Generation; 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; 4 Transnational Allegories and the Non-national Subject in The Ag ΓΌ ero Sisters and The Night Counter; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.