Constituting Americans - Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

"With beautiful sensitivity to language, Wald offers a unique blend of nuanced textual analysis and historical interpretation. The result is a provocative and well researched account of national stories and the concept of personhood."--Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School

Sommario

Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass ,and the Politics of Self-Definition 14

2. "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism 106

3. "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History 172

4. A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity 237

Coda: An American "We" 299

Notes 305

Selected Bibliography 353

Index 375

Info autore

Priscilla Wald is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University and a contributing editor to American Literary History

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wald, Priscilla Wald
• Con la collaborazione di: Donald E. Pease (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.05.1994
• EAN: 9780822315506
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1550-6
• Pagine: 408
• Peso: 953 g
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata