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The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature

Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137496263

ISBN: 978-1-349-57679-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 28, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

Pages: 1 –25

[In the presidential address to the American Studies Association in 2003, Amy Kaplan underlined the necessity of reconceptualizing national identity in American Studies in light of a newer understanding of the United States and Americanness as relational concepts, constructed nationally within...
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Chapter 2The Non-national Subject in The Language of Baklava and An American Brat

Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

Pages: 27 –61

[In the different notions of Americanness that circulated at the turn of the twentieth century, there were tensions between maintaining ethnic identifications, valorizing individualism and liberty as eminent elements of an American national consciousness, as well as a third definition of America...
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Chapter 3Reimagining the US National Time in West of the Jordan and The Last Generation

Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

Pages: 63 –92

[In Chapter 1, I have argued that non-national consciousness is a specific moment in which the subject remains immutably foreign despite citizenship and acculturation. Along these lines I have used the term non-national not only to mean moving beyond geographical territories but also to mean...
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Chapter 4Moments of (Un)belonging: The Spatial Configuration of Home(land) in The Time between Places: Stories that Weave in and out of Egypt and Arnerica and The Namesake

Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

Pages: 93 –128

[A revisited notion of “imagined (transnational) communities,” I argue, is the ground for reconceptualizing the interpellation of the ethnic subject in the United States, which changes the relationship between the communities imagined to form the nation and their movement in time. Thus, the...
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Chapter 5Transnational Allegories and the Non-national Subject in The Agüero Sisters and The Night Counter

Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

Pages: 129 –162

[The stories of migration in the narratives that I have discussed in the previous three chapters underline three aspects of the non-national in contemporary narratives by American women of color. These aspects have revisited notions of unified national consciousness, linear national time, and a...
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Chapter 6Afterword

Gomaa, Dalia M. A.

Pages: 163 –164

[In this book, I focus on the implications of the non-national in narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, South Asian-American, and Cuban-American women writers. As I mentioned earlier in the introduction for this study, the non-national subject reconfigures implications of home country and host...

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