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"The editors of "Materializing Democracy" have a vision--an activist vision--that, combined with rigorous analysis and scholarship, imparts an unusual energy and excitement to this volume."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson
Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America / Donald E. Pease
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies / Joan Dayan
Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s
The Alamo to Stand-up Democracy on the Border / Richard R. Flores
Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship / Russ Castronovo
Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation / Lauren Berlant
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan
The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush / Chris Castiglia
Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation / Dana D. Nelson
Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science / Wai Chee Dimock
A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture / Michael Moon
From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism / Kevin Gaines
Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency / Christopher Newfield
Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Moralism as Antipolitics / Wendy Brown
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
About the author
Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, published by Duke University Press.
Dana D. Nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky and author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men, also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy."
