Materializing democracy : toward a revitalized cultural politics / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castronovo, Russ, 1965-

Nelson, Dana D.

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.

Language Note:

English

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.

ISBN:

1-283-06409-X

9786613064097

0-8223-8390-X

OCLC:

1144919044