Materializing Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
Redaktion: Russ Castronovo, Castronovo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume's editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultural studies, history, legal studies, and political theory, the essays collected here highlight competing definitions and practices of democracy-in politics, society, and, indeed, academia.Covering topics ranging from rights discourse to Native American performance, from identity politics to gay marriage, and from rituals of public mourning to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, the contributors seek to understand the practices, ideas, and material conditions that enable or foreclose democracy's possibilities. Through readings of subjects as diverse as Will Rogers, Alexis de Tocqueville, slave narratives, interactions along the Texas-Mexico border, and liberal arts education, the contributors also explore ways of making democracy available for analysis. Materializing Democracy suggests that attention to disparate narratives is integral to the development of more complex, vibrant versions of democracy.Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Wendy Brown, Chris Castiglia, Russ Castronovo, Joan Dayan, Wai Chee Dimock, Lisa Duggan, Richard R. Flores, Kevin Gaines, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Michael Moon, Dana D. Nelson, Christopher Newfield, Donald E. Pease

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822383901
• Artikelnr.: 54911190

Autorenporträt

Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies / Russ
Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson
Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America / Donald E.
Pease
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies / Joan Dayan
Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-up
Democracy on the Border / Richard R. Flores
Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship
/ Russ Castronovo
Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation / Lauren Berlant
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan
The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush / Chris Castiglia
Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic
Representation / Dana D. Nelson
Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science / Wai
Chee Dimock
A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American
Relations to Mass Culture / Michael Moon
From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism /
Kevin Gaines
Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency / Christopher
Newfield
Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices / Jeffrey C.
Goldfarb
Moralism as Antipolitics / Wendy Brown
Works Cited
Contributors
Index