National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives

Donald E. Pease is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and editor of a number of books including National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives and, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism, both published by Duke University Press.

List of contents

Preface vii

National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts, and Postnational Narratives / Donald E. Pease 1

Nationalism, Hypercanonization, and Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Arac 14

The Politics of Nonidentity: A Genealogy / Ross Posnock 34

As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age / John T. Matthews 69

Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy / Alan Nadel 95

Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement / Robert J. Corber 121

Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 149

Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative / Patrick O'Donnell 181

Techno-euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime / Rob WIlson 205

On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia / Daniel O'Hara 230

Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad / John Carlos Rowe 255

Mass Circulation versus The Masses: Covering the Modern Magazine Scene / Kathryne V. Lindberg 279

Contributors 312

Index 315

About the author

Donald E. Pease

Product details

• Authors: Pease
• Assisted by: Donald E. Pease (Editor), Donald E Pease (Editor), Donald E. Pease (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1994
• EAN: 9780822314929
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1492-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General