Dislocating race & nation: episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism
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Main Author: Levine, Robert S., (Robert Steven) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2008
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux
American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and African American writers. Conflict and uncertainty, not consensus, Levine argues, helped define American literary nationalism during this period
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 322 pages)
ISBN:080783226X
0807859036
0807887889
1469605651
9780807832264
9780807859032
9780807887882
9781469605654

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