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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455189603321

Autore

Levine Robert S (Robert Steven), <1953->

Titolo

Dislocating race & nation [[electronic resource] ] : episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism / / Robert S. Levine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008

ISBN

1-4696-0565-1

0-8078-8788-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/3581

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Literature and history - United States - History

Nationalism and literature - United States - History

American literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - History

Race relations in literature

Black nationalism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux.

Sommario/riassunto

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and African American



writers. Conflict and uncertainty, not consensus, Levine argues, helped define American literary nationalism during this period. <B