Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index.
Contents:
Willful citizens. Negotiating Americanness and renarrativizing the "national symbolic" in the American Renaissance : Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas -- Playfully political : the female citizen-in-process in Gail Scott's Heroine -- Willfulness and the Wayward citizen : Philip Roth's American Trilogy -- Precarious citizens. Precariousness and the ethics of narration : Etel Adnan's In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country and Sitt Marie Rose -- Narratives of unhoming, displacement, and relocation : George Eliott Clarke's Whylah Falls and the Africadian community in Nova Scotia -- Citizenship unhinged : securitization, identity management, and the migrant in Amitava Kumar's Passport Photos -- Queer citizens. Sexual citizenship and the transgressive body : Djuna Barne's Nightwood -- Queer migration and citizenship in Caribbean Canadian writing : Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here and Shani Mootno's Valmiki's Daughter -- Queer(ing the) nation : ACT UP and AIDS activism in Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble and Rat Bohemia -- Diasporic and indigenous citizens. Narrating contested spaces : denizens and resident alliens of the (new) metropolis in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears -- Exile, migration, and the "poetics of relation" : Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Dany LaferrieĢre's The Return -- Citizenship deferred : Cherokee Freedmen versus Cerokee Nation in Shannon Ewel Foster's Abraham's Well and Tiya Miles's Ties That Bond The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom.
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