Dalia M.A. Gomaa

The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature

Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-57679-1
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781349576791
• ISBN-10: 1349576794
• Artikelnr.: 54771880

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"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)