Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination

by Kathy-Ann Tan

Book Overview

Explores how traditional notions of citizenship are contested and altered through literature.

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814341403
• ISBN13: 9780814341407
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"