Tan, Kathy-Ann, <br/><br/>
Reconfiguring citizenship and national identity in the North American literary imagination  [electronic resource] / 
Kathy-Ann Tan. 
 - Detroit :  Wayne State University Press,  [2015] 
 - 1 online resource (x, 364 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :)  illustrations ; 
 - Series in citizenship studies .
 - Series in citizenship studies. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index. 
<br/><br/>Willful citizens. Negotiating Americanness and renarrativizing the "national symbolic" in the American Renaissance : Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas -- Playfully political : the female citizen-in-process in Gail Scott's Heroine -- Willfulness and the Wayward citizen : Philip Roth's American Trilogy -- Precarious citizens. Precariousness and the ethics of narration : Etel Adnan's In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country and Sitt Marie Rose -- Narratives of unhoming, displacement, and reluctaion : George Eliott Clarke's Whylah Falls and the Africadian community in Nova Scotia -- Citizenship unhinged : securitization, identity management, and the migrant in Amitava Kumar's Passport Photos -- Queer citizens. Sexual citizenship and the transgressive body : Djuna Barne's Nightwood -- Queer migration and citizenship in Caribbean Canadian writing : Diionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here and Shani Mootno's Valmiki's Daughter -- Queer(ing the) nation : ACT UP and AIDS activism in Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble and Rat Bohemia -- Diasporic and indigenous citizens. Narrating contested spaces : denizens and resident alliens of the (new) metropolis in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Diinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears -- Exile, migration, and the "poetics of relation" : Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Dany Laferriere's The Return -- Citizenship deferred : Cherokee Freedmen versus Cerokee Nation in Shannon Ewel Foster's Abraham's Well and Tiya Miles's Ties That Bond The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814341414 0814341411 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Citizenship in literature.<br/>Canadian literature.<br/>American literature.<br/>Canadian literature--History and criticism.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.<br/>Citizenship in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS169.N35  / T36 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9