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1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations |
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New Americanists |
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New Americanists.
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National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts and Postnational Narratives / Donald E. Pease -- Nationalism, Hypercanonization, and Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Arac -- The Politics of Nonidentity: A Genealogy / Ross Posnock -- As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age / John T. Matthews -- Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy / Alan Nadel -- Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement / Robert J. Corber -- Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman -- Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative / Patrick O'Donnell -- Techno-euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime / Rob Wilson -- On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia / Daniel O'Hara -- Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad / John Carlos Rowe -- Mass Circulation versus The Masses: Covering the Modern Magazine Scene / Kathryne V. Lindberg |
| Summary |
National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity."This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake. Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson |
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English fiction |
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United States |
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"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface, index, and essays by Lindberg and Rowe as vol. 19, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
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Minorities in motion pictures.
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Minorities in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Intellectual life
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Minorities in literature
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Minorities in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures
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Nationale identiteit.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Minderheden.
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United States -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pease, Donald E
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| ISBN |
9780822377757 |
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0822377756 |
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