Stephen Knadler

Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of U.S. nationalism, democracy and citizenship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415996310
• ISBN-10: 0415996317
• Artikelnr.: 27871580

Autorenporträt

Stephen Knadler is Associate Professor of U.S. literature at Spelman College. He is the author of The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Black Politics and Diasporic Intimacy:
Remapping the Nation and Citizenship Part I: Transnational Citizenship in
the "Golden Age of Black Nationalism" 1. "To Breathe Central America":
Hemispheric Interplays and Martin Delany's Imagining of Citizenship in the
Colored Republic 2. Fashioning Democracy in America: Eliza Potter,
Elizabeth Keckley and Black Working-Class Women in the Consumer Republic 3.
Trans-American Seductions and Creolized Black Reconstruction: The Imagining
of Democratic Agency in Post-Civil War African-American Fiction Part II:
Reconstructing Black Citizenship at the Age of Empire 4. Accommodated
Citizenship: Black Cowboys and the Borderland West 5. Sensationalizing
Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom 6.
Policing the Isthmus: The Contested TransPacific Geography of a New World
Negro Epilogue: The Signifyin(g) Monkey Round the World Notes Bibliography
Index