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Subjects and citizens : nation, race, and gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
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- Creator
- edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson
- Other Title
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- Subjects & citizens
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 1995
- Physical Details
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- vi, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822315391, 0822315394, 9780822315292, 0822315297
- OCLC
- ocm32167062
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson -- Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers / Annette Kolodny -- Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourses Studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcon -- Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton / Julie Ellison -- Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism / Lora Romero -- Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves / Joan Dayan -- Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance / Maggie Sale -- Radical Configurations of History in the Era of American Slavery / Russ Castronovo -- White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction / Nancy Bentley -- Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet -- Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography / Maurice Wallace -- Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman -- Warring Fictions: Iola Leroy and the Color of Gender / Elizabeth Young -- "Alien Hands": Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race / Michele A. Birnbaum -- "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd -- Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: Americo Paredes's The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories / Ramon Saldivar -- Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland -- A Zuni Raconteur Dons the Junco Shirt: Gender and Narrative Style in the Story of Coyote and Junco / Siobhan Senier -- "We Murder Who We Were": Jasmine and the Violence of Identity / Kristin Carter-Sanborn -- The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant -- The Body Politic / Karla F. C. Holloway
Subjects
- American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History.
- Literature and society -- United States -- History.
- Authors, American -- Political and social views.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Ethnic relations in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Sex role in literature.