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Ob in homerischen Epen, antiken Romanen, Epen und höfischen Romanen des Mittelalters, frühneuzeitlichen Prosaromanen, Bildungsromanen, historischen Romanen, Autobiographien, multimodalen oder postkolonialen Romanen - der Raum, aus dem die Hauptfigur stammt, spielt innerhalb der erzählten Welt häufig eine entscheidende Rolle. Der Band wirft anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der erzählenden europäischen Literatur von der Antike bis heute Schlaglichter auf die je spezifischen Zusammenhänge von Raum und Herkunft. Der thematische Fokus der Frage nach Räumen der Herkunft lenkt den Blick darüber hinaus immer auch auf handlungs-, figuren- und zeitspezifische Momente. Die Fallstudien des Bandes untersuchen einzeltextspezifisch und ebenendifferenziert Herkunftsräume und versuchen von den Texten, ihren Darstellungsstrategien und Erzählinhalten ausgehend, narratologische Beschreibungskategorien für die methodisch kontrollierte, historisch adäquate Deutung von Texten fruchtbar zu machen. Dass im Zusammenspiel von Zeit, Raum, Figuren und Ereignissen die Räume der Herkunft eine wesentliche Schnittstelle darstellen, mag dabei nicht nur als allgemein, sondern gerade auch als fallweise zu begründende These gelten.

Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Belonging (Social psychology) in literature. --- Homeland in literature. --- Historical narratology. --- literary space. --- narrative schemata. --- origins.

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This study examines contemporary narratives by Arab-American, South-Asian American, Chicana, and Cuban-American women writers. Gomaa argues that the disparate histories of Arabs, South Asians, Chicanas, and Cubans in the U.S. unfold new non-national sites for affiliations and identifications that unsettle notions of a unified American national space. In each chapter a South-Asian American, Chicana, or Cuban-American text is paired with an Arab-American text to examine sites of ambivalence, which problematize an individual's sense of belonging to an "imagined community." The author proposes a redefinition of imagined communities to imagined transnational communities, which are formed beyond the geographical boundaries of a single nation and are not nation-centered. This study values Arab-American writings as a potential terrain to expand American Studies, and calls attention to Arab-American feminist strategies that contribute to theoretical debates by and about American women writers.

American literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Belonging (Social psychology) in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Minority authors --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Sociology. --- America-Literatures. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Fiction. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- North American Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Cultural Theory. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Philosophy --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern --- Sex. --- America --- Culture --- Fiction Literature. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Cultural studies --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- 20th century. --- Literatures. --- Philosophy. --- Study and teaching. --- Theory