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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975274703321

Titolo

Materializing democracy : toward a revitalized cultural politics / / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002

ISBN

9786613064097

9781283064095

128306409X

9780822383901

082238390X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Altri autori (Persone)

CastronovoRuss <1965->

NelsonDana D

Disciplina

321.8

321.80973

Soggetti

Democracy - United States

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 (p. [393]-416) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy."