Constituting Americans cultural anxiety and narrative form /
Wald, Priscilla.
Constituting Americans cultural anxiety and narrative form / [electronic resource] Priscilla Wald. - Durham : Duke University Press, 1995. - xiv, 390 p. - New Americanists . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.
Introduction -- 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition -- 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism -- 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History -- 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity -- Coda: An American "We".
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Group identity--History.--United States
Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--United States.
Political culture--History.--United States
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Electronic books.
E169.1 / .W25 1995
Constituting Americans cultural anxiety and narrative form / [electronic resource] Priscilla Wald. - Durham : Duke University Press, 1995. - xiv, 390 p. - New Americanists . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.
Introduction -- 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition -- 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism -- 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History -- 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity -- Coda: An American "We".
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Group identity--History.--United States
Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--United States.
Political culture--History.--United States
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Electronic books.
E169.1 / .W25 1995