Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill by M

Description: Subjects and Citizens by Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson "This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class, gender, and American nationhood. "Subjects and Citizens" is among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."—William E. Cain, Wellesley College FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and literary issues of our past and present. Defining the landscape of the New American literary history, these essays are united by three interrelated concerns: ideas of origin (where does "American literature" begin?), ideas of nation (what does "American literature" mean?), and ideas of race and gender (what does "American literature" include and exclude and how?). Work by writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Bharati Mukherjee, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Américo Paredes, and Toni Morrison are discussed from several theoretical perspectives, using a variety of methodologies. Issues of the "frontier" and the "border" as well as those of coloniality and postcoloniality are explored. In each case, these essays emphasize the ideological nature of national identity and, more specifically, the centrality of race and gender to our concept of nationhood. Collected from recent issues of American Literature, with three new essays added, Subjects and Citizens charts the new directions being taken in American literary studies. Contributors. Daniel Cooper Alarcón, Lori Askeland, Stephanie Athey, Nancy Bentley, Lauren Berlant, Michele A. Birnbaum, Kristin Carter-Sanborn, Russ Castronovo, Joan Dayan, Julie Ellison, Sander L. Gilman, Karla F. C. Holloway, Annette Kolodny, Barbara Ladd, Lora Romero, Ramón Saldívar, Maggie Sale, Siobhan Senier, Timothy Sweet, Maurice Wallace, Elizabeth Young Back Cover "This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class, gender, and American nationhood.Subjects and Citizensis among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."-William E. Cain, Wellesley College Author Biography Michael Moon is Associate Professor of English at Duke University and Associate Editor of American Literature. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in "Leaves of Grass." Cathy N. Davidson is Professor of English at Duke University and Editor of American Literature. She is the author of numerous books, including Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Table of Contents Introduction / Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson 1Part I. Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers / Annette Kolodny 9Oroonokos Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourses Studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcón 27Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton 57Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism / Lora Romero 87Part II. Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves / Joan Dayan 109Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance / Maggie Sale 145Radical Configurations of History in the Era of American Slavery / Russ Castronovo 169White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction / Nancy Bentley 195Part III. Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet 219Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography / Maurice Wallace 245Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman 271Warring Fictions: Iola Leroy and the Color of Gender / Elizabeth Young 293"Alien Hands": Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race / Michele A. Birnbaum 319Part IV. "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd 345Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: Américo Paredess The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories / Ramón Saldívar 373Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Toms Cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland 395A Zuni Racounteur Dons the Junco Shirt: Gender and Narrative Style in the Story of Coyote and Junco / Siobhan Senier 417"We Murder Who We Were": Jasmine and the Violence of Identity / Kristen-Carter Sanborn 433The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berland 455The Body Public / Karla F. C. Holloway 481Index 497 Review "This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class, gender, and American nationhood. Subjects and Citizens is among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."—William E. Cain, Wellesley College Review Quote "This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class, gender, and American nationhood. Subjects and Citizens is among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."-William E. Cain, Wellesley College Details ISBN0822315394 Pages 536 Language English ISBN-10 0822315394 ISBN-13 9780822315391 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1995 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Michael Moon Illustrations 1port. Birth 1950 Author Cathy N. Davidson Short Title SUBJECTS & CITIZENS Publisher Duke University Press Subtitle Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill DOI 10.1604/9780822315391 UK Release Date 1995-06-15 AU Release Date 1995-06-15 NZ Release Date 1995-06-15 US Release Date 1995-06-15 Publication Date 1995-06-15 DEWEY 809 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131532179;

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