| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 427 pages) |
| Series |
New Americanists |
|
New Americanists.
|
| Contents |
Introduction: Materializing democracy and other political fantasies / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson -- Tocqueville's democratic thing: or, aristocracy in America / Donald E. Pease -- Legal slaves and civil bodies / Joan Dayan -- Mexicans in a material world: from John Wayne's The Alamo to stand-up democracy on the border / Richard R. Flores -- Souls that matter: social death and the pedagogy of democratic citizenship / Russ Castronovo -- Uncle Sam needs a wife: citizenship and denegation / Lauren Berlant -- The new homonormativity: the sexual politics of neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan -- The genealogy of a democratic crush / Chris Castiglia -- Representative/democracy: the political work of countersymbolic representation / Dana D. Nelson -- Rethinking space, rethinking rights: literature, law, and science / Wai Chee Dimock -- A long foreground: re-materializing the history of Native American relations to mass culture / Michael Moon -- From center to margin: internationalism and the origins of Black feminism / Kevin Gaines -- Democratic passions: reconstructing individual agency / Christopher Newfield -- Anti-ideology: education and politics as democratic practices / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb -- Moralism as antipolitics / Wendy Brown |
| Summary |
Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-416) and index |
|
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 |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
|
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
| Subject |
Democracy -- United States
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
|
|
Democracy
|
|
Demokratie
|
|
Aufsatzsammlung
|
|
Démocratie -- États-Unis.
|
|
démocratie -- Etats arabes -- études diverses.
|
|
United States
|
|
USA
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Castronovo, Russ, 1965-
|
|
Nelson, Dana D
|
| ISBN |
9780822383901 |
|
082238390X |
|
