Caroline Levander

Cradle of Liberty

Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of how the child (in this case the white child) is conceptually connected to United States nationalism and nation-building, as well as to the relationship that nationalism has to race in the 19th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338727
• ISBN-10: 0822338726
• Artikelnr.: 21733732

Autorenporträt

Caroline F. Levander is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She is the author of Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture and a coeditor, with Carol J. Singley, of The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction : Natal Nationalism: The Place of the Child in American
Cultural Studies 1
1. The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making in the Slavery Era 29
2. Southern Fictions and the “Race” of Nations Along the Mexican Border 52
3. Consenting Fictions, Fictions of Consent: The Child and the
Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Novel 78
4. Transnational Twain 111
5. Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and Psychologies of Race 133
6. Raceless States: W.E.B. Du Bois and Cuba 157
Notes 179
Bibliography 211
Index 239