The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature - Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Non-National Subject in The Language of Baklava and An American Brat
2. Re-imagining 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 Agüero Sisters and The Night Counter
Afterword

About the author

Dalia M.A. Gomaa is an Associate Lecturer of Women Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, USA.

Additional text

“The book proposes the concept of ‘imagined transnational communities’ and positions Arab American literature as a field that can broaden, deepen, and complicate the meaning of Americanness. Gomaa’s study will be of particular relevance to scholars of multiethnic studies, American studies, Arab American studies, and women’s studies.” (American Literature, Vol. 89 (3), September, 2017)

 

Product details

• Authors: Dalia M.A. Gomaa
• Publisher: Springer EN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349576791
• ISBN: 978-1-349-57679-1
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: XII, 195 p.
• Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturtheorie, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Fiction, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature