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Body, nation, and narrative in the Americas[electronic resource] /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	809/.933587
書名/作者:	Body, nation, and narrative in the Americas/ Kristin E. Pitt.
作者:	Pitt, Kristin E.,
出版者:	New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (viii, 211 p.)
標題:	Disappeared persons in literature.
標題:	Political persecution in literature.
標題:	State, The, in literature.
標題:	Human body in literature.
標題:	National characteristics, American, in literature.
標題:	National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
標題:	Politics and literature - History. - America
標題:	America - Discovery and exploration
ISBN:	9780230115347 (electronic bk.)
ISBN:	0230115349 (electronic bk.)
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
內容註:	Introduction: disappearing citizens: body, nation, and narrative in the Americas -- Buried citizens: landing a nation in Jos�e de Alencar and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Lost citizens: memory and mourning in William Faulkner and Elena Garro -- Tortured citizens: terror and dissidence in Luisa Valenzuela and Edwidge Danticat -- Postscript: disappearing threats: reflections on security, immigration, and detention.
摘要、提要註:	Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas reveals the central role of disappearing and dying bodies within the literature of the Americas, arguing that anxiety regarding the power of the state over the citizen is a defining feature of New World cultural productions. This timely investigation contextualizes disappearance and detention within a framework of literary narratives depicting the dangers facing citizens of the Americas. Kristin E. Pitt examines a wide range of sources, from Hawthorne to Faulkner to Danticat, and finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of political terror to inter-American concerns about corporality and sovereignty.
電子資源:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information

Body, nation, and narrative in the Americas[electronic resource] /
Pitt, Kristin E.,1971-

Body, nation, and narrative in the Americas[electronic resource] /Kristin E. Pitt. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - 1 online resource (viii, 211 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: disappearing citizens: body, nation, and narrative in the Americas -- Buried citizens: landing a nation in Jos�e de Alencar and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Lost citizens: memory and mourning in William Faulkner and Elena Garro -- Tortured citizens: terror and dissidence in Luisa Valenzuela and Edwidge Danticat -- Postscript: disappearing threats: reflections on security, immigration, and detention.

Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas reveals the central role of disappearing and dying bodies within the literature of the Americas, arguing that anxiety regarding the power of the state over the citizen is a defining feature of New World cultural productions. This timely investigation contextualizes disappearance and detention within a framework of literary narratives depicting the dangers facing citizens of the Americas. Kristin E. Pitt examines a wide range of sources, from Hawthorne to Faulkner to Danticat, and finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of political terror to inter-American concerns about corporality and sovereignty.

ISBN: 9780230115347 (electronic bk.)

Source: 509433Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

523563
Disappeared persons in literature.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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America
--Discovery and explorationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN846 / .P58 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.933587

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