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Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination / Kathy-Ann Tan.

By: Tan, Kathy-Ann [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Series in citizenship studies: Publisher: Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2015Description: x, 364 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780814341407 (cloth : alk. paper); 0814341403 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Citizenship in literature | American literature -- History and criticism | Canadian literature -- History and criticism | American literature | Canadian literature | Citizenship in literatureGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc.DDC classification: 810.9
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.
List(s) this item appears in: New 2017 (Spring & Summer)
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810.9 TAN 2015 (Browse shelf) Available Book donation by Kathy-Ann Tan (spring 2017)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index.

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.

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