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Constituting Americans : cultural anxiety and narrative form /
"Ever since the founders drafted "We the people," "we" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | New Americanists.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Ever since the founders drafted "We the people," "we" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to this project; in doing so, it revises the traditional narrative of U.S. literary history, restoring an essential chapter to the story of an emerging American cultural identity. In diverse ways, very different writers--including Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Gertrude Stein--participated in the construction and dissemination of an American identity, but none was entirely at ease in the culture they all helped to define. Evident in their work is a haunting sense of their telling someone else's story, a discomfort that Priscilla Wald reads in the context of legal and political debates about citizenship and personhood that marked the emergence of the United States as a nation and a world power."--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 390 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-374) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822381907 0822381907 |