Nationality as Intersectional Storytelling
- 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 Honoré 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.
| Author details: | Maria WeilandtGND |
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| URL: | https://brill.com/display/title/58016 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_016 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-45012-7 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-51315-0 |
| Title of parent work (English): | New Perspectives on Imagology |
| Subtitle (English): | Inventing the "Parisienne" |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place of publishing: | Leiden |
| Editor(s): | Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/11/10 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2023/03/09 |
| Tag: | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Honoré de Balzac; Imagologie; Intersektionalität; Komparatistik Henry James |
| First page: | 297 |
| Last Page: | 311 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Künste und Medien |
| DDC classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 70 Künste |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft |
