{"product_id":"ambivalent-transnational-belonging-in-american-literature-9781032006475","title":"Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmbivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A significant contribution to the way we practice a transnational approach to literary analysis in American Studies, Schultermandl's work offers a complex and illuminating focus on the potentialities born of the reader's encounter with their ambivalent attachments to nation, identity, myths and values.\" Nina Morgan, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Transnational American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Ambivalent Transnational Belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlaudah Equiano’s Liberal Authorial Subject of the Circum-Atlantic Middle Passage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatharine Maria Sedgwick’s \u003ci\u003eClarence\u003c\/i\u003e, Sentimental Kinship, and the Transnational American Novel of Manners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosmo-Nationalist Aesthesis and Essentialized Womanhood in Henry James’s \u003ci\u003eDaisy Miller\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrecarious Intimacies and Narratives of the Transnational Care Economy in Jamaica Kincaid’s \u003ci\u003eLucy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMohsin Hamid’s \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u003c\/i\u003e: Transnational Ambivalence at the Limits of Multiculturalism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084465303895,"sku":"9781032006475","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ambivalent-transnational-belonging-in-american-literature-9781032006475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}