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Subjects and citizens : nation, race, and gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill /

Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moon, Michael, 1950- (Editor ), Davidson, Cathy N., 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Letting go our grand obsessions : notes toward a new literary history of the American frontiers / Annette Kolodny
  • Oroonoko's gendered economies of honor/horror : reframing colonial discourses studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcón
  • Race and sensibility in the early Republic : Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton / Julie Ellison
  • Vanishing Americans : gender, empire, and new historicism / Lora Romero
  • Amorous bondage : Poe, ladies, and slaves / Joan Dayan
  • Critiques from within : antebellum projects of resistance
  • Radical configurations of history in the era of American slavery / Russ Castronovo
  • White slaves : the mulatto hero in antebellum fiction / Nancy Bentley
  • Masculinity and self-performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet
  • Constructing the black masculine : Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography / Maurice Wallace
  • Mark Twain and the diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman
  • Warring fictions : Iola Leroy and the color of gender / Elizabeth Young.
  • "Alien hands" : Kate Chopin and thee colonization of race / Michele A. Birnbaum
  • "The direction of the howling" : nationalism and the color line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd
  • Border subjects and transnational sites : Américo Paredes"s The hammon and the beans and other stories / Ramón Saldívar
  • Remodeling the model home in Uncle Tom's cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland
  • A Zuni raconteur dons the Junco shirt : gender and narrative style in the story of Coyote and Junco / Siobhan Senier
  • "We murder who we were" : Jasmine and the violence of identity / Kristin Carter-Sanborn
  • The queen of America goes to Washington City : Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant
  • The body politic / Karla F.C. Holloway.