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Dislocating race & nation : episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism / Robert S. Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Literature and history--United States--History.
- Literature and history.
- Nationalism and literature--United States--History.
- Nationalism and literature.
- American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- Literature and society--History.
- Literature and society.
- Race relations in literature.
- Black nationalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Dislocating race and nation
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. <B
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908797-8-3
- 979-88-9313-207-6
- 1-4696-0565-1
- 0-8078-8788-9
- OCLC:
- 405080003
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