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Cradle of Liberty : Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois /

Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : natal nationalism ; the place of the child in American cultural studies
  • The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era
  • Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border
  • Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel
  • Transnational Twain
  • Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race
  • Raceless states: W.E.B. Du Bois and Cuba.