Priscilla Wald

Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"With beautiful sensitivity to language, Wald offers a unique blend of nuanced textual analysis and historical interpretation. The result is a provocative and well researched account of national stories and the concept of personhood."--Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School

Produktdetails

• New Americanists
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822315476
• ISBN-10: 0822315475
• Artikelnr.: 22436098

Autorenporträt

Priscilla Wald

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass ,and
the Politics of Self-Definition 14
2. "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism
106
3. "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the
Narrative of History 172
4. A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of
Identity 237
Coda: An American "We" 299
Notes 305
Selected Bibliography 353
Index 375