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Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U.S. Literature and Culture Christopher W. Clark
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Series Editor Linda Wagner-Martin University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century publishes works by contemporary critics that help shape critical opinion regarding literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14765
Christopher W. Clark
Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U.S. Literature and Culture
Christopher W. Clark School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK
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For Gail Leadingham, who kept believing in me.
Acknowledgment
This book would not have been possible without the insight and wisdom of so many people. You all have no idea how much you have impacted on me and how much faith you have given me in myself and this project. Sarah Garland and Hilary Emmett, you have gone above and beyond without a moment’s hesitation, taking me on late in my research while steering me faithfully into the challenges of postdoctoral life. I owe you a debt of gratitude. Andrew Dix and Brian Jarvis, your early support and witty and astute insights helped me push the work in i
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