Title Body, nation, and narrative in the Americas / Kristin E. Pitt

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) Contents Introduction: disappearing citizens: body, nation, and narrative in the Americas -- Buried citizens: landing a nation in José 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Alencar, José Martiniano de 1829-1877 gnd Danticat, Edwidge 1969- gnd Faulkner, William 1897-1962 gnd Garro, Elena 1916-1998 gnd Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 gnd Valenzuela, Luisa 1938- gnd Alencar, José Martiniano ((de)) swd Danticat, Edwidge. swd Faulkner, William. swd Garro, Elena. swd Hawthorne, Nathaniel. swd Valenzuela, Luisa. swd Subject Disappeared persons in literature. Political persecution in literature. State, The, in literature. Human body in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. National characteristics, Latin American, in literature. Politics and literature -- America -- History Literary studies: post-colonial literature. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Literature. Disappeared persons in literature Human body in literature Literature National characteristics, American, in literature National characteristics, Latin American, in literature Political persecution in literature Politics and literature State, The, in literature Bürger Motiv Internierung Körper Motiv Literatur Politische Verfolgung Motiv Staatsgewalt Motiv Vermisster Motiv Literatur -- Amerika -- Motiv -- Politische Verfolgung. Literatur -- Amerika -- Motiv -- Körper. Politische Verfolgung -- Motiv -- Literatur -- Amerika. Körper -- Motiv -- Literatur -- Amerika. Körper. Verfolgung. Staatsgewalt. Motiv (Literatur) SUBJECT America -- Literatures -- History and criticism Subject America Amerika Amerika. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230115347 0230115349 9781349290635 1349290637

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