Silvia Schultermandl

Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses to what extent transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000390988
• Artikelnr.: 61662038

Autorenporträt

Silvia Schultermandl is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Münster. She is the author of Transnational Matrilineage: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Asian American Literature and co-editor of six collections of essays which explore various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies, including Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures. Among others, her articles have appeared in the following journals: Meridians, Atlantic Studies, Interactions, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Journal of American Culture. Together with May Friedman, she is series editor of the Palgrave Series in Kinship, Representation, and Difference. Silvia's areas of interest include affect theory, literary theory, critical race theory, queer theory, visual culture, and transnational feminism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Ambivalent Transnational Belonging
2. Olaudah Equiano's Liberal Authorial Subject of the Circum-Atlantic
Middle Passage
3. Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Clarence, Sentimental Kinship, and the
Transnational American Novel of Manners
4. Cosmo-Nationalist Aesthesis and Essentialized Womanhood in Henry
James's Daisy Miller
5. Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of the Transnational Care
Economy in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy
6. Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Transnational
Ambivalence at the Limits of Multiculturalism