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-n...
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North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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- Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition; 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism; 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History; 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity; Coda: An American "We"; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.