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Palencia-Roth, Michael Sugg, Katherine Elaine 2015-09-28T15:51:16Z 2015-09-28T15:51:16Z 10000-01-01 1997 1997 "The four ostensibly different narrative projects share an almost obsessive sifting through past experience; and in confronting the hauntings of self through sexual and national identities, these texts inscribe the complex emotions and subjectivities generated by their ""fixation"" on past homes. The narrative practices that generate these inscriptions suggest the possibility of a complex agency situated in the structures of nostalgia, a self-conscious and difficult nostalgia that encompasses both what is re-membered, and opens textual spaces for a representation of what remains forgotten, inaccessible. Such a narrative practice is feminist in its oppositional complications of the more comforting and stable narratives of selfhood and nationhood. By engaging the intersections of the psychic and the political, these texts insist on an excavation of the invasive discourses that both constrain and enable the daughter-narrator's agency. What she has, and what she has lost, are questions that ground these autobiographical inquiries and motivate a self-inscription through and against the fictions of home, family, and nation/culture that haunt her. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:51:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9812781.pdf: 14829643 bytes, checksum: 74a28ba67bd929a232eae698def47cac (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88586 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 292 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87305 (MiAaPQ)AAI9812781 eng Literature, American Daughters and Their Countries: Nostalgia and Ambivalence in Transnational Feminist Practice text Comparative Literature Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.