1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455605303321

Autore

Sorisio Carolyn <1966->

Titolo

Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 [[electronic resource] /] / Carolyn Sorisio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-72593-9

9786612725937

0-8203-2637-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/35

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Human body in literature

Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Race in literature

Sex role in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: remapping the nineteenth-century literary landscape -- The body in the body politic: race, gender, and sexuality in nineteenth-century America -- The spectacle of the body: corporeality in Lydia Maria Child's antislavery writing -- Deflecting the public's gaze and disciplining desire: Harper's antebellum poetry and Reconstruction fiction -- Saxons and slavery: corporeal challenges to Ralph Waldo Emerson's Republic of the spirit -- The new face of empire: the price of Margaret Fuller's progressive feminist project -- "Who need be afraid of the merge?": Whitman's radical promise and the perils of seduction -- "Never before had my puny arm felt half so strong": corporeality and transcendence in Jacobs's incidents -- Epilogue: Martin R. Delany and the politics of ethnology.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822427403321

Autore

Nguyen Marguerite Bich <1976->

Titolo

America's Vietnam : the longue duree of U.S. literature and empire / / Marguerite Bich Nguyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia ; ; Rome ; ; Tokyo : , : Temple University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4399-1613-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Asian American history & culture

Classificazione

LIT004030LIT008020

Disciplina

810.9/358597

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects - United States

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Influence

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Literature and the war

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Mass media and the war

War and society

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"America's Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam's emergence in the American imagination--one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the starting point of meaningful Vietnamese--U.S. political and cultural involvements. Examining literature from as early as the 1820s, Marguerite Nguyen takes a comparative, long historical approach to interpreting constructions of Vietnam in American literature. She analyzes works in various genres published in English and Vietnamese by Monique Truong and Michael Herr as well as lesser-known writers such as John White, Harry Hervey, and V&otilde; Phi?n. The book's cross-cultural prism spans Paris, Saigon, New York, and multiple oceans, and its departure from Cold War frames reveals rich cross-period connections. America's Vietnam recounts a mostly unexamined story of Southeast Asia's lasting and varied influence on U.S. aesthetic and political concerns. Tracking Vietnam's transition from



an emergent nation in the nineteenth century to a French colony to a Vietnamese-American war zone, Nguyen demonstrates that how authors represent Vietnam is deeply entwined with the United States' shifting role in the world. As America's longstanding presence in Vietnam evolves, the literature it generates significantly revises our perceptions of war, race, and empire over time"--

"Examining works written in English and Vietnamese, this book maps a transnational, longue dureé model for understanding the history of Vietnamese-American encounters and demonstrates how genre significantly shapes our perceptions of war, race, and empire"--