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Autore |
Wald Priscilla |
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Titolo |
Constituting Americans : cultural anxiety and narrative form / / Priscilla Wald |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 1995 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-90432-9 |
9786612904325 |
0-8223-8190-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (410 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Group identity - United States - History |
Narration (Rhetoric) - Political aspects - United States |
Political culture - United States - History |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Group identity in literature |
Anxiety in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition -- 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism -- 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History -- 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity -- Coda: An American "We". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ever since the founders drafted ""We the People,"" ""we"" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to this project; in doing so, it revises the traditional narrative of U.S. literary history, restoring an essential |
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chapter to the story of an emerging American cultural identity. In diverse ways, very different writers-including Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, W. E. B. |
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