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Book SynopsisExamines the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Monikova, Rafik Schami, and E S Ozdamar, among others), developing a framework for understanding the relationship between displacement, memory, and language.
Trade Review"Azade Seyhan's innovative analysis of diasporic and transnational writing will certainly instigate re-interpretations of literary texts beyond the scope of her own study. [T]he achievement and importance of Seyhan's Writing Outside the Nation are unmistakable."--Gerd Bayer, German Studies Reviews
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One: Chapter 1. Introduction: Neither Here/Nor There: The Culture of Exile 3 Chapter 2: Geographies of Memory 23 Chapter 3: Autobiographical Voices with an Accent 65 Part Two Chapter 4: At Different Borders/On Common Grounds 99 Chapter 5: Writing Outside the Nation 125 Afterward: Pedagogical Gains 151 Notes 161 Works Cited 177 Index 185
