Mourning the Nation to Come : Creole Nativism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures /

"In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sayre, Jillian J. (Autor, VerfasserIn)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nationalism in literature.
Latin American literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.
American literature.
Brazilan literature > 19th century > History and criticism
Latin American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one"--
Introduction: The Book Is a Grave -- Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body -- Books Buried in the Earth -- Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History -- The Shadow of the (m)Other -- Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation -- Coda: What Remains.
Notas:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-243
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin, 2010
Descripción Física:1 online resource (263 pages).
ISBN:9780807172841

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