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-n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wald, Priscilla
Otros Autores: Pease, Donald E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: North Carolina : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Political culture.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects.
Group identity in literature.
Group identity.
Anxiety in literature.
American literature.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Narration > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Identite collective > États-Unis > Histoire.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Political culture > United States > History.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects > United States.
Group identity > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (408 pages).
ISBN:9780822381907

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