Constituting Americans : cultural anxiety and narrative form /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wald, Priscilla
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:New Americanists.
Temas:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wilson, Harriet E., > 1825-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Criticism and interpretation.
James, William, > 1842-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Criticism and interpretation.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895
Wilson, Harriet E., > 1825-1900
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
James, William, > 1842-1910
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963
Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua > Buenos Aires
1800-1999
Geschichte 1830-1925.
Group identity > United States > History.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects > United States.
Political culture > United States > History.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Identité collective > États-Unis > Histoire.
Narration > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
15.85 history of America.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
American literature.
Group identity.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects.
Political culture.
Gruppenidentität
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Culturele identiteit.
Nationalisme.
Identité collective > États-Unis.
Culture politique > États-Unis.
Littérature et société > États-Unis.
Prosa.
United States.
USA
USA.
English fiction > History
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Neither citizen nor alien : national narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of self-definition
  • "As from a faithful mirror : Pierre, Our Nig, and literary nationalism
  • "The strange meaning of being black" : The souls of black folk and the narrative of history
  • A "losing-self sense" : The making of Americans and the anxiety of identity
  • Coda: An American "we."

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