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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Transnational Na(rra)tion
• Subtitle: Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• Author: John Dolis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9781611478150
• ISBN: 1611478154
• ID: 09243171
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 238 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. May 2015

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