Cradle of Liberty - Race, Child, National Belonging From Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du

Informationen zum Autor Caroline F. Levander Klappentext A study of how the child (in this case the white child) is conceptually connected to United States nationalism and nation-building, as well as to the relationship that nationalism has to race in the 19th century. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction : Natal Nationalism: The Place of the Child in American Cultural Studies 1 1. The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making in the Slavery Era 29 2. Southern Fictions and the “Race” of Nations Along the Mexican Border 52 3. Consenting Fictions, Fictions of Consent: The Child and the Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Novel 78 4. Transnational Twain 111 5. Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and Psychologies of Race 133 6. Raceless States: W.E.B. Du Bois and Cuba 157 Notes 179 Bibliography 211 Index 239

Product details

• Authors: Caroline F. Levander, Levander, Caroline Levander, Caroline F. Levander, Caroline Field Levander
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2006
• EAN: 9780822338567
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3856-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA