LEADER 03621nam 22007934a 450 001 9910777988203321 005 20080401102445.0 010 $a1-282-90432-9 010 $a9786612904325 010 $a0-8223-8190-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822381907 035 $a(CKB)1000000000757573 035 $a(EBL)1167585 035 $a(OCoLC)850213879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000391939 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12154725 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000391939 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10360549 035 $a(PQKB)10228587 035 $a(OCoLC)213455251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1167585 035 $a(OCoLC)1140092963 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79410 035 $a213455251 035 $a(DE-B1597)554025 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822381907 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679926 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000757573 100 $a20080318d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstituting Americans$b[electronic resource] $ecultural anxiety and narrative form /$fPriscilla Wald 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-1550-5 311 $a0-8223-1547-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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". 330 $aEver since the founders drafted ""We the People,"" ""we"" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to this project; in doing so, it revises the traditional narrative of U.S. literary history, restoring an essential chapter to the story of an emerging American cultural identity. In diverse ways, very different writers-including Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, W. E. B. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aGroup identity$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aAnxiety in literature 615 0$aGroup identity$xHistory. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aAnxiety in literature. 676 $a973/.01/9 700 $aWald$b Priscilla$01567130 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777988203321 996 $aConstituting Americans$93838267 997 $aUNINA