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Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination

Title
Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination [electronic resource] / Kathy-Ann Tan.
Author
Tan, Kathy-Ann.
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015]

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Description
1 online resource (x, 364 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Series Statement
Series in citizenship studies
Uniform Title
  • Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination (Online)
  • Series in citizenship studies.
Alternative Title
Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination (Online)
Subject
  • Citizenship in literature
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Canadian literature > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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 Laferrière'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.
LCCN
2015940583
OCLC
ssj0001636370
Author
Tan, Kathy-Ann.
Title
Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination [electronic resource] / Kathy-Ann Tan.
Imprint
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015]
Series
Series in citizenship studies
Series in citizenship studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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