{"product_id":"9781611478167","title":"Transnational Na(rra)tion: Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature","description":"This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of \"American\" identity involves the incorporation of a \"foreign body\" as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen\/subject and national identity depend upon a certain alterity, an \"other\" which constitutes the secondary term of a binary structure. \"American\" identity thus finds itself ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual chapters are devoted to Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.","brand":"University Press Copublishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135330566384,"sku":"9781611478167","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611478167_p0.jpg?v=1769903497","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611478167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}