| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 529 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Letting go our grand obsessions : notes toward a new literary history of the American frontiers / Annette Kolodny -- Oroonoko's gendered economies of honor/horror : reframing colonial discourses studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcón -- Race and sensibility in the early Republic : Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton / Julie Ellison -- Vanishing Americans : gender, empire, and new historicism / Lora Romero -- Amorous bondage : Poe, ladies, and slaves / Joan Dayan -- Critiques from within : antebellum projects of resistance -- Radical configurations of history in the era of American slavery / Russ Castronovo -- White slaves : the mulatto hero in antebellum fiction / Nancy Bentley -- Masculinity and self-performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet -- Constructing the black masculine : Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography / Maurice Wallace -- Mark Twain and the diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman -- Warring fictions : Iola Leroy and the color of gender / Elizabeth Young |
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"Alien hands" : Kate Chopin and thee colonization of race / Michele A. Birnbaum -- "The direction of the howling" : nationalism and the color line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd -- Border subjects and transnational sites : Américo Paredes"s The hammon and the beans and other stories / Ramón Saldívar -- Remodeling the model home in Uncle Tom's cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland -- A Zuni raconteur dons the Junco shirt : gender and narrative style in the story of Coyote and Junco / Siobhan Senier -- "We murder who we were" : Jasmine and the violence of identity / Kristin Carter-Sanborn -- The queen of America goes to Washington City : Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant -- The body politic / Karla F.C. Holloway |
| Summary |
Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and literary issues of our past and present. Defining the landscape of the New American literary history, these essays are united by three interrelated concerns: ideas of origin (where does ""American literature"" begin?), ideas of nation (what does ""American literature"" mean?), and idea |
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English literature |
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United States |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History
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Literature and society -- United States -- History
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Authors, American -- Political and social views
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Gender identity in literature.
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Ethnic relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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18.06 Anglo-American literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American -- Political and social views
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Ethnic relations in literature
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Gender identity in literature
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Literature and society
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Politics and literature
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Ethnische Beziehungen Motiv
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Geschlechterverhältnis Motiv
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Literatur
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Nationalbewusstsein Motiv
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Sex role in literature
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Amerikaans.
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Race relations in literature
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Letterkunde.
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Sekserol.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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Nationale identiteit.
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identité nationale -- littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) -- Etats-Unis -- 17e s. (fin) -- 20e s. -- études diverses.
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littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) -- rôle (sociologie) -- sexe (genre) -- Etats-Unis -- 17e s. (fin) -- 20e s. -- études diverses.
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littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) -- race -- relations sociales -- Etats-Unis -- 17e s. (fin) -- 20e s. -- études diverses.
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Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
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Geschlechterbeziehung (Motiv)
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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History (form)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moon, Michael, 1950- editor.
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Davidson, Cathy N., 1949- editor.
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| LC no. |
95010297 |
| ISBN |
9780822382393 |
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0822382393 |
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1282904485 |
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9781282904484 |
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9786612904486 |
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6612904488 |
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0822315394 |
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9780822315391 |
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