Constituting Americans [electronic resource] cultural anxiety and narrative form / Priscilla Wald.
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TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.Description: xiv, 390 pSubject(s): - Group identity -- United States -- History
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- United States
- Political culture -- United States -- History
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Group identity in literature
- Anxiety in literature
- E169.1 .W25 1995
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.