Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-00647-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists’ complex transnational subjectivities, which exist between or outside national frameworks but are nevertheless interpellated through the nation-state and through particular myths about liberal, sentimental, or cosmopolitan subjects.

The notion of ambivalent transnational belonging yields insights into the affective appeal of the transnational as a category of analysis, as an aesthetic experience, and as an idea of belonging. This means bringing the transnational into conversation with the aesthetic and the affective so we may fully address the new conceptual challenges faced by literary studies due to the transnational turn in American studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schultermandl, Silvia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Ambivalent Transnational Belonging

- Olaudah Equiano’s Liberal Authorial Subject of the Circum-Atlantic Middle Passage

- Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence, Sentimental Kinship, and the Transnational American Novel of Manners

- Cosmo-Nationalist Aesthesis and Essentialized Womanhood in Henry James’s Daisy Miller

- Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of the Transnational Care Economy in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy

- Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Transnational Ambivalence at the Limits of Multiculturalism

Über Autor(innen)

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.