Titlebook: Rewriting American Identity in the Fiction and Memoirs of Isabel Allende; Bonnie M. Craig Book 2013 Bonnie Craig 2013 America.fiction.iden

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Future Sustainable Landscapes of Belonging,gards to the following terms: ., and .. As Alex discovers the nation built upon “ecology,” he meanwhile reflects upon his own nation of the United States and its value of the “economy.” It is Alex’s travels within the kingdom that allow him to participate in a shared vision of a sustainable future t

遵循的规范

四海为家的人

The Politics of National Belonging,re we to interpret the obvious contradictions between the two statements? How are we to make sense of Allende’s views about nation and nationality? How can we understand Allende’s US citizenship in light of her cosmopolitan notion of national belonging within the Americas?

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Sites of Transformation within the Americas,avior of others by “binding” groups of people to the mutual territory they inhabit, then how do Allende’s maps unite the observer to a sense of past history as well as to a perception of how the future will be lived within the represented territory?. Indeed, how do they give a “feel for the shape” of how the world is perceived?

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证明无罪

,“The Intangible Space” of Belonging,the space of love and affective engagement and its relation to nation and “tribe”; in the final two pages alone, the word . is used five times. What are we to make of Allende’s description of love as a “territory” where we are not “foreigners”? How does this space help her reconcile being an “American” within the Americas?

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,Feminist, “Feminine,” and “Matriarchal” Nations?,ow do we read Allende’s view of national belonging in light of what she calls her “matriarchal tribe?” What is the relationship of Allende’s feminism to patriarchal understandings of national belonging? How does Allende’s depiction of the act of . contribute to alternative paradigms of belonging?

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Conclusion,w identities and a redefinition of American society itself.. In doing so, as Allende engages with California’s past, present, and future, she contributes to a meaningful relationship between the imagined and physical site of the United States and the literary means of expression that the site produces..

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