@article{Weilandt2022, author = {Weilandt, Maria}, title = {Nationality as Intersectional Storytelling}, series = {New Perspectives on Imagology}, journal = {New Perspectives on Imagology}, editor = {Edtstadler, Katharina and Folie, Sandra and Zocco, Gianna}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-45012-7}, doi = {10.1163/9789004513150_016}, pages = {297 -- 311}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Nationality traditionally is one of imagology's key terms. In this article, I propose an intersectional understanding of this category, conceiving nationality as an interdependent dynamic. I thus conclude it to be always internally constructed by notions of gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, age, ability, and other identity categories. This complex and multi-layered construct, I argue, is formed narratively. To exemplify this, I analyse practices of stereotyping in Honor{\´e} de Balzac's Illusions perdues (1843) and Henry James's The American (1877) which construct the so-called Parisienne as a synecdoche for nineteenth-century France.}, language = {en} }