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The non-national in contemporary American literature = ethnic women writers and problematic belongings /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The non-national in contemporary American literature/ by Dalia M. A. Gomaa.
Reminder of title:	ethnic women writers and problematic belongings /
Author:	Gomaa, Dalia M. A.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US : : 2016.,
Description:	xii, 195 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	American literature - Minority authors -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496263
ISBN:	9781137496263

The non-national in contemporary American literature = ethnic women writers and problematic belongings /
Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

The non-national in contemporary American literatureethnic women writers and problematic belongings /[electronic resource] :by Dalia M. A. Gomaa. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xii, 195 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - American literature readings in the 21st century. - American literature readings in the 21st century..

This study examines contemporary narratives by Arab-American, South-Asian American, Chicana, and Cuban-American women writers. Gomaa argues that the disparate histories of Arabs, South Asians, Chicanas, and Cubans in the U.S. unfold new non-national sites for affiliations and identifications that unsettle notions of a unified American national space. In each chapter a South-Asian American, Chicana, or Cuban-American text is paired with an Arab-American text to examine sites of ambivalence, which problematize an individual's sense of belonging to an "imagined community." The author proposes a redefinition of imagined communities to imagined transnational communities, which are formed beyond the geographical boundaries of a single nation and are not nation-centered. This study values Arab-American writings as a potential terrain to expand American Studies, and calls attention to Arab-American feminist strategies that contribute to theoretical debates by and about American women writers.

ISBN: 9781137496263

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137496263doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

572516
American literature
--Minority authors

LC Class. No.: PS153.M56 / G66 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 810.98

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