TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Christopher W. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U.S. Literature and Culture T2 - American Literature Readings in the 21st Century SN - 9783030521141 AV - PN843-846 U1 - 809.7 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - America—Literatures KW - Literature KW - Motion pictures KW - Queer theory KW - United States—Study and teaching KW - Motion pictures and television KW - Cultural studies KW - North American Literature KW - Literature, general KW - Queer Studies KW - American Culture KW - Screen Studies KW - Cultural Studies N1 - Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: American Avengers -- Chapter Three: We Could Be Heroes -- Chapter Four: Black Sites -- Chapter five: Emergent Queers -- Chapter six: Conclusion. N2 - This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, and migrant fiction in the twenty-first century, Christopher W. Clark creates a queer archive of transcultural U.S. texts as a way of destabilizing heteronormativity and thinking about productive spaces of queer world-building. Drawing on the fields of transcultural memory, queer studies, and transculturalism, this book raises important questions of queer bodies and subjecthood. Clark traces their legacies through texts by Sinan Antoon, Mohamedou Ould Slahi among others, alongside film and photography that includes artists such as Nina Berman and Hasan Elahi. In all, the book queers forms of cultural memory and national identity to uncover the traces of injury but also spaces of regeneration UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52114-1 ER -