Gomaa The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature

Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-49626-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 195 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gomaa, Dalia M.A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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