Growing Up Transnational: Identity and Kinship in a Global Era


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With its inherent motivation of destabilizing the nation-state as an organizational category, transnationalism has animated scholars to adopt a new perspective on American literature. Typically, research in transnational American Studies promotes investigations of American culture in its myriad appropriations in local and specific contexts on a global scale by defining borders as permeable and flexible.

What is missing from the abundant scholarship is a substantiated study which extends the modes in which transnationalism challenges the nation-state into the aesthetic realm: The overall theme is the notion of ambivalence as both a feeling about the self within the transnational world and a strategy to subsume the reader into the endeavor of re-thinking American literature from a transnational vantage point.

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This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family relations, identity politics, and cultural locations in a global era. Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of.

It will thoroughly analyze the aesthetic representation and ideological conceptualization of ambivalence from multiple angles, and will show that its prevalence throughout American literary history continuously challenges and queries that nation-state. Abstract A transnational approach to individual identity has come to the fore front recently.

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