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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill Paperback - 1995

by Michael Moon (Editor)

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  • Title Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 536
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-06-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0002859997
  • ISBN 9780822315391 / 0822315394
  • Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.44 x 1.12 in (23.27 x 16.36 x 2.84 cm)
  • Reading level 1560
  • Library of Congress subjects Gender identity in literature, Sex role in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-10297
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.9

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From the publisher

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, Amrico 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 Alarcn, 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, Ramn Saldvar, Maggie Sale, Siobhan Senier, Timothy Sweet, Maurice Wallace, Elizabeth Young

From the rear 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 Citizens" is among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."--William E. Cain, Wellesley College

About the author

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.

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