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Materializing democracy : toward a revitalized cultural politics / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Americanists.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy."
- Contents:
- Introduction: Materializing democracy and other political fantasies / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson
- Tocqueville's democratic thing: or, aristocracy in America / Donald E. Pease
- Legal slaves and civil bodies / Joan Dayan
- Mexicans in a material world: from John Wayne's The Alamo to stand-up democracy on the border / Richard R. Flores
- Souls that matter: social death and the pedagogy of democratic citizenship / Russ Castronovo
- Uncle Sam needs a wife: citizenship and denegation / Lauren Berlant
- The new homonormativity: the sexual politics of neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan
- The genealogy of a democratic crush / Chris Castiglia
- Representative/democracy: the political work of countersymbolic representation / Dana D. Nelson
- Rethinking space, rethinking rights: literature, law, and science / Wai Chee Dimock
- A long foreground: re-materializing the history of Native American relations to mass culture / Michael Moon
- From center to margin: internationalism and the origins of Black feminism / Kevin Gaines
- Democratic passions: reconstructing individual agency / Christopher Newfield
- Anti-ideology: education and politics as democratic practices / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
- Moralism as antipolitics / Wendy Brown.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-416) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed December 1, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06409-X
- 9786613064097
- 0-8223-8390-X
- OCLC:
- 1144919044
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