03698nam 22008294a 450 991082528990332120080401102445.01-282-90432-997866129043250-8223-8190-710.1515/9780822381907(CKB)1000000000757573(EBL)1167585(OCoLC)850213879(SSID)ssj0000391939(PQKBManifestationID)12154725(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000391939(PQKBWorkID)10360549(PQKB)10228587(OCoLC)213455251(MiAaPQ)EBC1167585(OCoLC)1140092963(MdBmJHUP)muse79410213455251(DE-B1597)554025(DE-B1597)9780822381907(OCoLC)1226679926(EXLCZ)99100000000075757320080318d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConstituting Americans cultural anxiety and narrative form /Priscilla WaldDurham Duke University Press19951 online resource (410 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-1550-5 0-8223-1547-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.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".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 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.e-Duke books scholarly collection.New Americanists.Group identityUnited StatesHistoryNarration (Rhetoric)Political aspectsUnited StatesPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureGroup identity in literatureAnxiety in literatureGroup identityHistory.Narration (Rhetoric)Political aspectsPolitical cultureHistory.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Group identity in literature.Anxiety in literature.973/.01/9973.019Wald Priscilla1694622MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825289903321Constituting Americans4073287UNINA